Chapter 10
A week later, my business partner finally flew in–and immediately collapsed from food poisoning and jet låg
I had to go take care of him at his hotel.
While lying there like a corpse, he handed me the brief for the client meeting tomorrow.
When I saw it, I just froze.
How the hell can someone be this obsessed with work?
Still, since he was down, I had no choice but to go in his place.
It’s our business anyway–what’s the difference who shows up?
But the second I walked into that hotel lobby, I regretted everything.
I called him immediately.
“You didn’t think to mention the client was Lena?”
He sounded half–dead on the phone but sat bolt upright at that.
“No way. That’s impossible. I would never screw that up.”
While we were still trying to figure out what the hell was going on,
Lena walked up behind me.
“I requested the switch,” she said softly.
“I wanted to see you.”
I turned around, and there she was–three feet away, not daring to come any closer.
She looked so timid, like one wrong word might set me off.
“I know you don’t want to see me. But I…I can’t let go.”
“Ryan, please. Just give me one more chance.”
I rolled my eyes.
“Sure. Want a chance to get the hell out of here?”
I didn’t even finish the damn meal.
Later, my partner chewed out the original client for switching representatives without telling us.
£— Thuno Monthe. My Husband and Sons Locked Me in a Coffin
It was the first time I’d seen a major client get scolded like a child and just sit there and takich
After venting my partner turned to me and said,
“But seriously, let’s work with her.”
I stared at him like he’d lost his mind.
“Are you kidding me?”
He grinned.
“Come on, don’t you want to see her go from hopeful to completely wrecked?”
“The world?”
y she looks at you now–like you’re her enti
“She needs to be put in her place.‘
I’d thought I was already past the point of caring about Lena.
But the way she crashed back into my peaceful life, trying to wreck everything I was building-
Yeah, maybe my partner had a point.
