Beauty and the Boss Prequel by R.S. Elliot

Author:R.S. Elliot [R.S. Elliot]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Office Romance
Published: 2019-05-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Luke

My day hadn't been going well even before I found that girl on the roadside. I had put in almost ten hours at the office, dodging calls from my secretary left and right about when I was going to get back in touch with PR about doing another public appearance, and sending my sister's calls to voicemail as she called to try and set up another one of her family get-togethers. It wasn't that I hated doing press, or my family, it was just that those were things I had a limited amount of patience for on a good day, and none when I was sandwiched between two product launches with a corporate address hanging over my head the next week.

None of this was unusual for me as the CEO of a cutting-edge tech company, especially since SkyBlue had skyrocketed to the center of public attention in recent years once our first line of driver-assisting cars went public. We were holding on the total automation technology, perfecting it and swatting away cheap copycats like flies, while the public got used to the idea of smart cars. There had been a rash of breathless, panicked think pieces about AI taking over the world in the New York Times during the month of release, but I couldn't be bothered to care. Smarmy op-eds hadn't cut down on sales, and AI was welcome to take over the world so long as I was the man holding the shares and calling the shots.

Now we were ready to introduce a full-size luxury sedan that could slip between manual drive and total automation at the driver's behest, and the buzz was deafening. It had gotten almost too loud to bear, and the pressure was building like a shaken bottle of champagne ready to pop at midnight. I considered myself level-headed under pressure and had never lost face in the press before. But that didn’t mean I didn’t need to blow off a little steam when the cameras turned off.

By the time I clocked out of the office at seven pm, I was equal parts exhausted and desperate for something to do to break the monotony of product designs, press releases, and internal emails I had been swimming in for a week. My favorite high-end cocktail lounge called my name, or my home gym, but in the end I decided to go visit some old friends in north to downtown Queens.

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