Checkmate CEO

The only contract Tasha thought she would be getting was from a publishing company, but here she was a contract to seduce the most eligible bachelor in the state.

She thought about it while she filled in for her mother's part-timer, who had flunked out a minute before the store opened for a toothache excuse.

Her mother noticed her gloomy expression and her deep sigh for the millionth time.

" At this rate, we might as well start eating salt itself, " she whispered sarcastically, and Tasha sighed again, realizing that she had been rolling the pieces of chicken in a large bowl of salt instead of flour.

" I'm here you know, you can tell me anything " Mrs Rowan smiled affectionately at her, which she faked back. She could not even tell Zoey about it.

She could never let her mother in on the contract issue. She'd know about the assault charge and things would go eerily. She was going to figure this out on her own.

She packed the left overs of the last customers, washed all the plates