BOSSY DADDY by Pixie Langston

Author:Pixie Langston [LANGSTON, PIXIE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-04-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Emma

I can’t believe I’m at dinner at Már. Even less believable is that I’m here with Glen Fields, who strolled in and got us a table.

We place our orders and then I look around and say, “You must have some major juice to be able to skip a six month waiting list to get us in here.”

He shrugs like it’s nothing. “Like I said, the owner is a good friend of mine.”

“Yeah, about that. What’s the story there? You said you both met in med school?”

“Yeah, Nicolo and I met in med school, and we both dropped out one after another.” He chuckles. “I was the first to leave. A month later Nicolo followed.”

“Wow… I never would have guessed.”

“Why? Is the idea of me being a doctor so strange?” I detect a hint of offense in his tone.

“No.” I shake my head. “It’s just that you’re so good at what you do that I have a hard time seeing you doing anything else.”

“You think I’m good at what I do?”

“Of course I do.”

“Well, you could’ve fooled me.” He chuckles, but I can hear the hurt behind the sound.

“Listen, I think you’re amazing at what you do. I mean, look at what you’ve done. You built Med-Fields into one of the biggest medical equipment supply companies in the country. I recognize that couldn’t have been easy to do.”

“If you think that then why do you go out of your way to make me feel little?”

“Is that what you think? That I’ve been trying to make you feel little?” He doesn’t answer me, but I can hear his acquiescence in his silence. “That’s the last thing I want to do. I just try to be very frank with you. Though I think you’ve created something great with Med-Fields, it’s also true that your devotion to the past and how things have always been done could lead to the collapse of the company. I don’t want that to happen, and it will if I dance around issues. I choose to be blunt instead.”

“OK… That makes sense…” He is silent for a moment before he rejoins me in the here and now. “Anyway, enough of that. I didn’t ask you out so we could talk about work. I had hoped we’d get to know each other a little better.”

I smile at him. “You’re right. So back to what we were talking about. Why did you drop out of med school?”

He sits back in his chair and huffs. “I don’t know, I guess my heart wasn’t in it anymore. I realized that I was doing it for all the wrong reasons. It took a while for me to understand, but I had always wanted to be a surgeon for the prestige. It’s not like I had a burning desire to heal people. I just wanted the social capital and the lifestyle that went along with that profession. It didn’t take long for me to realize that I wasn’t truly happy.

“So, I did some soul-searching. I came to the conclusion that business was it for me.

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