Married for His One-Night Heir by Jennifer Hayward

Author:Jennifer Hayward
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-09-05T13:43:31+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

SANTO EXITED THE meeting he’d been attending with his design team at Supersonic’s Central Park West offices, secure in the knowledge that the manufacturing flaw they had uncovered in Elevate had been successfully ironed out without detriment to the shoe’s design, and production was back on a smooth schedule.

Which was key, because in just a few weeks, the sneaker would be winging its way across the globe and into stores for its worldwide launch, supported by the massive marketing campaign the company had planned. Elevate would soon become the most talked-about running shoe on the planet and all the critics would be silenced.

His marriage, however, was not on that same upward trajectory. It festered like an open wound that wouldn’t heal as he picked up the messages his assistant, Enid, handed him before she left for the day, and continued on into his office. Gone were the intimate family dinners that had come to represent the highlight of his day, replaced by short, curt affairs in which Gia chose to communicate with him only when spoken to directly.

Gone, also, were the long, hot nights, replaced by an ice-cold version of her as chilly as the cherry-flavored Popsicles she served Leo after dinner. She wasn’t happy, that was clear. Nor was he. In fact, it was so far from the vision of the marriage he’d wanted for himself, it would have been laughable if it hadn’t been so damn disconcerting, because he and Gia were at a stalemate and he could not see a way forward.

Never, in his experience, had he seen a high-powered couple make a family work. Nico and Chloe were managing it, but that was the operative word. Managing. Even Nico labeled it the supreme juggling act that it was. Chloe had confessed she wanted to spend more time with Jack and had plans to scale back her focus to make that happen. Which only proved his point. So he’d proposed the optimal solution to Gia, only to have her turn it down flat. Which left them exactly nowhere, because she’d gone ahead and had her lunch with Nina instead.

Lazzero strolled into his office. Surveyed him with a long look. If he made one more comment about paradise, he fumed inwardly, he was going to take off his head. His brother, however, seemed to recognize his perilous mood and leaned a hip against the front of his desk instead.

“Carlos just called. We’re being asked to give input on the trade deal. He wants reinforcements.”

Santo rubbed a hand over his brow. He was knee-deep in orchestrating a one-hundred-million-dollar marketing campaign for Elevate. He was having lunch with the best soccer player in the world on Wednesday, as the athlete was headlining their advertising campaign. And then there was Saturday’s dinner with Gervasio Delgado. That the negotiations around the Mexican trade deal would heat up now, when they’d been lagging for months, was impeccably bad timing. But if Carlos Santino, the president of their Mexican subsidiary, had picked up the phone asking for reinforcements, he clearly needed it.

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