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The CEO's Ex Lover Chapter forty three
NicoleThe report came in on Thursday morning, and the number at the bottom was beautiful.I read it standing at Kim's desk, with a coffee going cold in my hand. It was the weekly financial summary, the one Kai's office circulated to the senior team, and somebody in accounts had highlighted a line in yellow, which is the corporate equivalent of screaming. *Outside investment: withdrawn.* Eleven percent of our operating capital, pulled by the biggest of our backers, effective immediately. The letter said they'd lost confidence in the company's ability to resolve its legal exposure on a reasonable timetable.Reasonable timetable. I'd written that timetable.Every date, every extension, every worded request for more time. The last adjournment had been the final straw. I had taken a lawsuit that should have been over in a month and stretched it, week by week, until the people with the money got tired of waiting. There it was, in black and white, with a downward arrow. And here it was, in
The CEO's Ex Lover Chapter forty two
KaiIt was a quarter to midnight, and I was looking for a lease.That's all. A lease, for a warehouse, in a folder I swore I'd put in the bottom drawer of the old oak credenza. It was the one piece of furniture I'd carried out of my father's study the day I took the CEO's office. I knelt on the carpet in my shirtsleeves, with a cold cup of coffee beside me, and dragged the drawer all the way out.It wasn't there. Of course it wasn't. Nothing I wanted was ever where I'd left it.What was there was a cardboard box, soft at the corners, with my mother's handwriting on the lid. *KAI. MISC.* The packers must have thrown it in with the rest. I almost pushed it back, I was tired, and it was late, and I'd had four hours' sleep in two days but my hand went to the lid, and the lid came off, and I looked inside.School reports. A broken watch. And under all of it, face down, a glossy square of paper.I turned it over.The garden.I'd have known it anywhere. The long stone path, the clipped hedge
The CEO's Ex Lover Chapter forty one
NicoleKim told me about the vote in the kitchenette, at the coffee machine, with the voice of a woman delivering a birth announcement."Seven to nothing."I didn't say anything. I just stood there, holding a mug, and listened to the water drip."He walked out, and the chair called the vote anyway. For the minutes. Seven to nothing, ma'am. Nobody even asked for a recess." She was grinning so widely I thought her face might split. "My friend in the boardroom said it was like watching somebody flatten a bug with a very large book.""Kim.""I'm just reporting.""You're gloating.""I'm *celebrating,* ma'am, there's a difference." She poured her own coffee and clinked her mug against mine. "To Section Nine."I clinked back and my lips curved upwards It felt *wonderful.* Another point on the board. Another door he'd walked up to with his jaw set and a piece of paper in his hand, only to find it welded shut. Kai had tried to remove me from his building, and the whole board of directors had
The CEO's Ex Lover Chapter forty
KaiIt was a typing error that finally did it.Not a big one. A date on a notice of appearance, filed in the wrong box, on the wrong day, so the clerk's office stamped it late and charged us a fee of eleven hundred dollars. It landed on my desk at eight-fifteen on a Monday morning, with a yellow flag on it, and I looked at it for a long time.*She never misses.*That was my first thought, and it was the one that made my hands go cold. Six weeks of watching her work, and I'd have bet my father's house she couldn't write a date wrong if she tried. Every filing was spotless. Every stamp was straight. I'd read every page I could find in a dark office at midnight, and the only flaws I'd found were small, and crooked, and leaned the same way.And now, this. Plain, stupid, and sitting in the open like a coin on a pavement.Maybe it was a test. Maybe it was a trap. I knew all of that.And I didn't care.Because I had *had it.* I'd had the delays and the paper trails and the pleasant way she l
The CEO's Ex Lover Chapter thirty nine
NicoleThe best gossip in any building happens in the ladies' room, and I was in a stall when I heard mine.I didn't mean to eavesdrop. I had gone in to splash cold water on my face and I had just locked the door when two women came in laughing, and one of them said, in a whisper "Did you hear about the coffee?"I became very calm"What coffee?""You didn't? The mailroom boy told me. The CEO sent her a coffee. Personally. Not an assistant, *him,* he gave the order himself and she sent it back.""Never.""Sealed. With a *note.*""What did the note say?""Something legal. He didn't read it, but his expression changed so much that his assistant was terrified.""His expression changed?*""That's what I said!"I stood in my stall with one hand pressed flat against the cold metal door and the other one clenched."I'm just saying," the second woman said. "It's a lot. He cancelled his ten o'clock for that and the hearing? Somebody in the gallery said he sat there like a statue, and then he fo
The CEO's Ex Lover Chapter thirty eight
KaiMy mother set the table herself, which should have been my first warning.She never did. There were people for that, but when I walked into the dining room that Sunday, she was standing at the head of it, straightening a fork by a single millimeter, and she looked up at me with eyes that said, *run.*I didn't run. I'm Russo. We don't run, we sit down and get eaten."Kai." My father didn't get up. He sat at the far end of the long mahogany table with a glass of red wine, in the same carved chair he'd occupied since before I could walk, and he smiled with his mouth only. "Punctual. Good. Your sister's already here."Summer was on his right, in a cream blouse, with her hair pinned up. She lifted her hand in a small wave without quite meeting my eyes.Same as at the Walkers'.I sat. A maid I didn't recognize poured my wine. The room was exactly as I remembered it, the heavy drapes, the chandelier, the portraits of dead Russo men glaring at the soup. I'd watched a girl in a gray unifor
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