Like A Boss by Logan Chance

Author:Logan Chance [Chance, Logan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Brothers Chance Books
Published: 2016-07-11T21:00:00+00:00

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I was a nervous wreck for my meeting with Theo on Monday morning.

As I drove to work, my stomach a bundle of nerves, I gripped the steering wheel until my knuckles turned white.

I pulled along Ocean Drive and found a spot near the bar. It was early, the sun barely creeping up from the horizon, and only a few people were out and about. A few seagulls circled in the bright blue sky.

Even the vendors with their jewelry and t-shirt stands weren’t fully set up.

A warm breeze blew off the ocean and swirled my hair around my face. Taking a deep breath, trying my hardest to gain confidence, I entered the bar.

Theo held his clipboard in his strong hands standing behind the bar when I stepped inside. He stopped, stared, and then returned his attention back to what he was doing.

“Hello,” I said, nervously.

“Penny,” he said, not looking up from the clipboard.

It felt eerily strange being in the bar alone with him.

I stood frozen as he laid the clipboard down along the bar and rested his arm over top of it.

His attention all on me, almost as if a fire was lit in his eyes, made me weak in the knees.

Moving wasn’t happening, forget about breathing properly.

I cleared my throat and tried to speak, but the words wouldn’t come.

“Are we going to start? Or are you going to stand there all day?”

Why was he only ever mean to me?

“No, we can begin,” I said as I took a seat on a barstool with the wide oak bar between us.

“Ok, so start already. We have lots of work to do today.”

Who was he kidding? It was Monday, and we would be empty all afternoon. But, I played his little game and smiled. “Of course. Well, I have some solutions to improve a few things around here.”

“Continue,” he snapped.

I could already see I had my work cut out for me this morning.

I opened my mouth to speak right at the moment he licked his full lips, and I stumbled over my words. “I think... we... could have theme days to drive in more business. Maybe Martini Mondays and we can run a discount on martinis.”

He didn’t move or acknowledge my idea so I continued, nervously. “And we could do Two-for-Tuesdays. Almost like a buy one get one free.” I sounded like a child as I rushed the words out. Silence loomed between us. His dark eyes moved back to focus on his precious damn clipboard with no interest whatsoever in what I said. He wasn’t taking me seriously and a fire ignited in my chest.

Who the fuck did he think he was? He could turn me on in a random club a few nights ago and now he couldn’t even comment on what I said?

“Are you done?” he asked.

Was he for real?

“No, I’m not. You should listen to my ideas, Mr. Sullivan. They’re good, and you don’t have a clue what you’re doing here.” I could tell I crossed a line when his eyes snapped up to meet mine.

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