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Leo nods and gestures to a pretty woman with slicked-back black hair who is following along behind us. “Tell Lara to order whatever you need. She’s Grayson’s assistant, but for the time that you’re here, she’ll be working with you as well.”
“Thank you.” I round the desk and open the curtains, letting in the sunlight. “I’m going to get to work ordering some furniture, and after that, I’ll begin planning.”
Leo turns to Victoria. “We should talk about this plan you have in more detail while Grayson shows Jade around.”
Grayson’s glare is icy, his dark eyes looking more like soulless pits.
He waits until Leo and Victoria are gone and Lara is settled at her desk outside the other office. “What do you think you’re doing here?”
“The last time I checked, I was coming to save your father’s company.” I sit down behind the desk, pull out my phone and start to browse furniture websites. “Is there a problem with that?”
“Yes.” Grayson crosses his arms, his gray button-up pulling taunt as his muscles flex.
Chewing attractive men up and spitting them out is my specialty.
At least, that’s what Paloma says whenever we have a girls’ night and I tell her about the last horrible date I went on.
I sigh and put my phone face down on the worn wood veneer. “I don’t know what your problem with me is, but I have a job to do.If you could leave and shut the door behind you, that would be great.”
A muscle in his jaw ticks. “You have got to be kidding me. You know exactly what you did to me. You’re not going to waltz in here and try the same underhanded tricks. We’re not in college anymore.”
“Funny that you say that while standing in my office, acting like the spoiled brat you’ve always been.” I cross one leg over the other, leaning back in the chair to get a good look at him. “From where I’m sitting, you’re still trying to get the CEO position in Daddy’s company instead of actually working for something in your life.”
If looks could kill, I would be six feet under.
Grayson isn’t intimidating, though. I’ve dealt with powerful men in boardrooms for years.
If he thinks that a glare and the insistence that I don’t belong here is going to be enough to send me away, then he’s got another thing coming.
He points to the office on the other side of the glass wall. “I have to work next to you, so whatever you think it is you’re going to be doing, you better be quiet about it. Some of us actually care about this company and have work to do.”
“I don’t know what delusion you’re under, but I care about saving the company. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be here.”
“All you care about is looking better than everyone around you, and that’s all you’ve ever cared about,” he says, bitterness clear in his tone as he looks down his nose at me.
So that’s what this is about.
He shakes his head, hand dropping to his side. “You’re actually going to have to work here instead of getting other people to do your dirty work.”
I get up, striding across the carpeted floor and stopping in front of him. My chest nearly brushes against his, and I don’t miss the way his gaze drops down to the low neckline.
He’s still the same man he always was.
“Listen here, Grayson. If you think that this little hissy fit is a good look for you, I would think again. We both know that they’re going to be looking for a new CEO with the rebrand of LRH Global. The board isn’t going to pick the man who throws tantrums.”
“And that’s why you’re really here, isn’t it? You think this is just another easy way to the top.”
Smirking, I smooth a hand down the buttons on his shirt. “Unlike you, Grayson, I’ve worked hard for everything I have. I built two successful companies from the ground up. But remind me, what are you doing with your life?”
His face glows a bright shade of red.
This might be the most infuriated I’ve ever seen him. Even after everything that happened back in college, he didn’t look this angry with me.
What I did back then might have been underhanded, but I’m not the same person I was all those years ago.
I learned a lot about life the following summer over the course of the internship. More than I ever had even during the difficult years growing up.
It changed me fundamentally as a person, but if Grayson wants to think that I’m the same woman I was back then, he’s more than welcome to it.
