Lawyer and the BOSS (Billionaire's Obsession Book 2) by R. S. Elliot

Author:R. S. Elliot [Elliot, R. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Mia

I'm not sure anyone but Aiden Carrier could have convinced me to do something as unthinkable as sign-on as a legal consultant to a multi-million dollar company during my first weeks on the job, as a secretary no less. I was, of course, thrilled to be thought of in such a high capacity by Aiden, but my imposter syndrome screamed at me that I was unqualified and unprepared to give any useful advice. In school, I had always struggled against the feeling that I had gotten into Stanford on some accident, that I wasn't as smart or as driven as my classmates, but at least I had my grades to prove me wrong. When I doubted myself, I could just look at my transcript full of As and know that I was doing something right. Now, it was all guesswork. There was no one to compare myself to. Just me and Aiden in a too-tiny room, so high up in the New York skyline that I was convinced I could see New Jersey in the distance if I squinted.

Did I mention the room was really tiny? It was a room off Aiden's office used for meetings with guests and having smaller meetings that didn't call for one of Carrier's larger board rooms. Although it could probably fit six people comfortably, Aiden's presence made the walls feel titled in and the air around me feel hot. The low murmur of life going on outside the office, of people stapling papers and clacking away at keyboards and asking each other for sales reports, didn't diminish the searing feeling that we were the only two people in this cloistered room. Every sound seemed amplified here. Even my breaths sounded labored in my own ears.

There were a couple of comfortable leather chairs arranged around a sleek wooden table, and because of the awkward shape of the thing and the fine print of the documents we were going over together, Aiden had opted to sit beside me on my side of the table.

We had gathered up all the legal paperwork that had been sent over by Sport Tech, and I had laid them out on the table in arrangements that made sense to me and I hoped made sense to Aiden as well. Judging by his furrowed brow, it wasn't making much of an impact, but I was willing to go over things as slowly and thoroughly as necessary. In a way, it felt like we were back in high school with me helping him unpack why his answers to his math homework weren't coming out right. The only difference was, now we were grown adults sitting in a cushy executive office, high above the road noise of New York City. Aiden was a grown man in a suit tailored so sharply I felt like I might cut myself just by looking at it, and his presence next to me was intimidating and expansive, smelling of woodsy men's cologne and skin fresh from the shower.

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