Compromising Positions by Jenna Bayley-Burke

Author:Jenna Bayley-Burke [Bayley-Burke, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance
ISBN: 9781605043128
Publisher: Samhain
Published: 2010-08-14T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

David’s back didn’t hurt at all this morning, making him wonder if it ever did. He was second-guessing every feeling he’d ever had. Sophie had knocked him to the ground. Literally, figuratively, in every way possible. She was a mass of contradictions he couldn’t wrap his head around.She was mad because he got her a car he couldn’t fit in, yet a few days later she was ejecting him from her life. He’d been more intimate with her than he’d ever been with a woman, yet she accused him of rejecting her. She’d said no more touching, then hadn’t kept her hands off him. Not that he’d minded in the slightest.

Maybe she was just playing a game with him. Jerking him around for sport. Maybe this is what she did, why she went out on so many dates last year. It was easily a different guy each week, sometimes two. He knew she dated, Craig had told him as much. What the hell was “I waited for you” supposed to mean anyway?

David shoved his hands deeper in his coat pockets and willed himself to pay attention. This plan had been his idea completely, and he couldn’t even focus long enough to make it through a presentation.

The acquisitions director of SGI was leading David and six board members around the perimeter of the Taylor Center. The high-rise housed Strong Gym’s downtown location at street level with offices, including eight floors of SGI’s corporate headquarters, on the seventeen floors above. David had decided SGI would buy the building instead of continuing to lease the space two years ago when he took control of the company. Growing the company through real estate hadn’t been popular with the older board members. Now that their holdings included seven high-rises in three states the board was starting to sit up and take notice of the growing profit margin.

Not that he needed their approval anymore. For the first deal his father had run interference and called in favors to get the approval for the sale. But now, for the first time since his grandfather had taken on partners, a single person held the majority of the company shares and made the decisions. Him.

He’d achieved his career goal. There were still projects he wanted to accomplish, but his main objective of majority control of SGI was complete. It was time to reevaluate where he wanted the company to go. David was never satisfied with more of the same.

He tried to listen about equity and growth potential. It seemed interesting enough to the board members, but David had read it word for word in the report last week. His eyes wandered across the street to the row of storefronts. His gaze caught on a sign in the window of a travel agency.

Sophie probably hadn’t traveled much. There wouldn’t have been much time for that. Her youth had been filled with responsibilities, while his had been peppered with extravagant adventures like the safari for his sixteenth birthday or the summer in New Zealand after graduation.

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