Chapter 15 - Creed

Sage is grinning at me when I walk into the gym boardroom and I roll my eyes. “Why did I have to get dressed up for a meeting?” I ask him for the fifth time, but again he refuses to answer me truthfully.

“This is an important meeting, and as the CEO of our brand, you need to be present for this,” he says and gestures for me to sit at the head of the table.

The boardroom is situated on the same floor as our offices, but I never use mine. What’s the point if I didn’t want people to know the gym belonged to me? I only come here because the equipment is better than the gym in Volkov forest; well, that was before I met Cherie.

An oval dark oak table dominates the center of the room with six chairs present; a stack of papers at each chair indicates that we’re meeting with four other people until I see Luka walking in.

He looks as confused as me and shrugs when I ask him over the mind link what he’s doing here. “Sage told me to get dressed up and come to the boardroom,” he says and we both