His Surprise Son by Allie Pleiter

Author:Allie Pleiter [Pleiter, Allie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-03-07T21:33:37+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Josh jabbed at the car stereo control button Monday morning, cranking it to the earsplitting volume he usually loved. He waited for the throbbing beat to course through him, underscoring the twisty drive to his office that launched his days.

The days he actually made it home from work, that was.

He couldn’t remember the last time he’d been away from work for four days. Sales calls and conferences pulled him away from his desk frequently, but never to the level of disengagement of this past weekend. Half of him wondered what sort of disasters lay waiting on his desk, even though he’d been up for three hours poring over accumulated emails.

The other half of him—a half he didn’t recognize—wanted to just keep driving. Take off down the highway in search of the quiet that had eluded him since the plane wheels touched down last night. He couldn’t have stopped living loud; loud was who he was. His whole life was music and noise. It was about being loud and large, about being headed for greatness and impossible to ignore.

Josh Tyler was a high-volume guy in every respect.

So why did the noise just jar and annoy him this morning?

Chalking it up to jet lag, Josh applied the effort it took to make the left turn into SymphoCync’s parking lot and told himself to enjoy the way the sun reflected off the building’s huge glass windows. He had six meetings today, the first of which started in twenty minutes. As he hit the lock button on his key fob, making the car chirp out a sound from its “J. Tyler, CEO” parking spot, Josh made a small version of his name sign with his left hand. Okay, Big Fish, time to hit the ground swimming.

The day’s meetings went by in an uninspiring blur. The next day’s presentation went fine, but Josh felt no zing of success when the new advertisers signed their two-year contract.

On Wednesday Matt sent back a proposal Josh had given him to review with a dozen corrections. Mistakes Josh should have caught. “Get your head in the game” was scrawled across the bottom of the last page in Matt’s all-caps handwriting.

On Thursday he snapped at his assistant for overbooking him in meetings. Overbooking. This from the guy for whom overbooking was usually standard operating mode.

Friday brought everything to a head, when Josh read an email from Hal Braddon, an important potential investor, about a deal they’d been working on for weeks. They were due to speak the next day at a weekend conference, but Braddon asked for a blisteringly early breakfast before the event began. At SymphoCync, not the hotel across town that was hosting the conference.

That was actually good news. Braddon was a high-profile investment capital magnate rich enough to buy tech companies for amusement if not for profit. The guy could say no any number of ways, or not respond at all. The fact that he wanted to meet privately told Josh the deal might be about to take a huge leap forward.

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