Boardroom Battle by Kelsie Fann

Author:Kelsie Fann [Fann, Kelsie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-21T04:00:00+00:00

17.

“What’s wrong, Liz?” Chambers asked when she sat down next to him.

She didn’t know how to tell Mr. Chambers that Hamilton, the only legitimate buyer they had, wasn’t coming. She still couldn’t process it herself. She played with the tie on the side of her dress, smoothing it against her side. There were no words that would make this situation better.

She took a deep breath and twisted her body toward Chambers. “Hamilton’s out.”

“What happened?” Chambers leaned toward her.

Liz unlocked the tablet in front of her. “Financing problems.”

Chambers ran his hand over the smooth tabletop. “Good thing we’ve got another prospect,” he said. Liz’s insides turned over. She needed to tell Mr. Chambers that Darcy pulled Hamilton’s financing, but it didn’t matter.

“Sure.” Liz pretended to read emails on her tablet so she didn’t have to look Mr. Chambers in the eye and tell him his only other prospect was going to chop his company to bits and fire her.

“You okay?” Mr. Chambers asked.

She didn’t look up, but she nodded. “Yes.”

Liz was still rattled when Darcy arrived with his partner a few minutes later. The red-haired man walked in wearing a perfectly southern tan suit. Meanwhile, Darcy was totally buttoned up in a pitch-black suit and white shirt.

Liz stared at Darcy. Her heart felt like Darcy’s suit: black. Anger bubbled up in her throat as she looked at the tall man with the long reach.

Liz exhaled deeply and stood, offering her hand to her enemy. “Darcy,” she said.

He took her hand and shook it. For the second time, as their hand’s connected, she felt a spark. What is going on?

He stared at her as she willed her body not to tremble with fury. She exhaled again and forced her fury deep inside. She needed to keep a calm mind if she was going to be any use to Mr. Chambers.

“Liz,” James said, walking up to her and extending his hand. “I don’t think we’ve been introduced officially. I’m James. I’ve heard a lot about you.”

Despite her anger, his kind, warm face made her smile. “Nice to meet you.” She shook his hand and refused to look at Darcy.

“Shall we sit?” Mr. Chambers’s spread his arms open wide.

Darcy and James nodded and sat down on the opposite side of the conference table from Liz and Mr. Chambers.

Liz could see through the clear, glass conference room wall, behind Darcy and James, and into the rest of the office. She saw her team members, Elise and Stella, smush their heads together, pulling out food from their lunch boxes and posing with it for #lunchfacetime—a tradition started on their first day. Stella balanced an apple on her nose like a seal with a ball.

Liz prayed Darcy wouldn’t turn around to see her team, but before she could pull her eyes off of the girls, Darcy turned his head to see what she was looking at and caught Elise with a banana between her teeth.

“They’re, um…” Liz started to explain the #lunchfacetime tradition but stopped herself short. There was nothing she could say.

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