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“Brilliant. When do you think you could have the next few chapters to us?”
“The book is done. I thought Ted told you that. We just didn’t want to overwhelm you with the whole thing if you weren’t interested.”
I finished chewing and reached for my glass of wine. “We’re more than interested. We can have a contract ready for you tomorrow if the numbers we discussed work for you?” We were offering her a four-book deal, which we didn’t do often, but she’d felt passionate about the series, and we knew she was talented as hell.
“Yes. I’m ready to sign with you right now.” She clasped her fingers together and chuckled.
“Consider it a done deal. We’ll send something over to your office tomorrow, Ted.” My grandfather did not look pleased when he turned his attention to her agent, who had clearly been lying about submitting to us in the past.
“Great. We’ll look it over and get it back to you quickly.” Ted glanced down at his phone as if he had something more important going on than the fact that we had verbally agreed to sign Mara.
She watched him for a long moment before turning back to the rest of us. “How about we keep in touch? Let’s exchange numbers.”
She handed her phone to Georgia, and she agreed to put her number and our office number in her contacts, and then she sent herself a text to ensure she had Mara’s number, as well.
Ted’s head snapped up. “That won’t be necessary. I’ve got their information. Well, I don’t have Georgia’s number, and I should probably get that in case I can’t reach the big guy over here.”
I rolled my eyes. He had no reason to contact her. “If you call my direct line, Georgia will answer and patch you through. That should suffice.”
Yeah, I shut that shit down fast and glanced at Georgia to make sure she didn’t hand that asshole her phone.
“Well, I’ll give you a call at the office tomorrow, Georgia.” He smiled and slipped his phone into his coat pocket.
We finished dinner and celebrated with a few desserts as Mara and Georgia talked books. Ted told us he might have another client interested in signing with us, but I figured he was full of shit and just trying to kiss our asses after being caught in a lie tonight.
We all stood and said our goodbyes and my grandfather told me he’d call me in the morning. Ted walked Mara out, and from the looks of it, she was blasting him a little, as their conversation looked heated.
Georgia and I walked toward the elevators, not saying a word as we waited for the doors to open and stepped inside.
“You did well tonight,” I said, standing on the opposite wall from her because I needed distance from this woman. Her scent. Her eyes. Her smile. It was doing crazy shit to me, and that didn’t sit well.
“Thank you. I love her. She’s amazing. Her agent is a real tool, though, huh?”
“Yeah. Unfortunately, he’s got some of the biggest authors out there, and working with him is inevitable. But you handled him well.”
“Thank you. Did you just compliment me twice in two minutes, Bossman?” Her voice was all tease as the door opened, and I motioned for her to step off first.
I was a gentleman, after all.
It had nothing to do with the fact that I had a perfect view of her ass swaying from side to side as she walked down the hall.
“Don’t get cocky. I still think you drive a piece of shit, and you did dance around in my closet, so there are still those two things on the table.” I chuckled as I paused in front of my door, and she stood across from me with her back against her door.
“I’ve got some moves, don’t I?”
The best fucking moves I’d ever seen.
But I wouldn’t say that.
I was her boss, after all.
“Goodnight, Tink.”
And with that, I turned and slipped inside my room.
I’d gotten a text from Heather, a woman I’d seen on and off over the years, but for whatever reason, I wasn’t in the mood for company.
Because I couldn’t get my goddamn assistant out of my head.
