Mergers & Acquisitions by A.E. Radley

Author:A.E. Radley [Radley, A.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Heartsome Publishing
Published: 2017-08-02T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Sophie closed her eyes and counted to five. It had been the week from hell. Things had gone from bad to worse, and the cherry on top: Jonathan was officially signed off work for another month. Sophie was no longer Kate’s temporary PA, she was Kate’s PA. Except, she wasn’t being paid for it.

Georgina and Michael remained in the Red Door offices as Yannis dropped in for impromptu meetings every other day. Georgina and Kate were at each other’s throats constantly. Any pretence of kindness had well and truly vanished. Now it was more like outright war.

Every time Yannis visited, he threw Sophie’s meticulously planned schedule for Kate out of the window. And most of the time he made sizeable changes to the direction of the campaign. He was a nice guy, but a part of Sophie had started to hate him.

Despite Yannis agreeing to see a pitch from each company and work with only one, he was frantically trying to wow investors. And for that, he needed whomever would give him what he needed at the time. A logo, a wireframe mock-up, a drafted press release. His demands meant Mastery and Red Door were working together on the project. Even if it was the project before the project.

Sophie found herself longing for the good old days when no one knew her name. Even if Kate did call her a variety of names starting with S. Even if each grew more outlandish the more frustrated Kate became.

She finished counting to five and opened her eyes. Kate stared back at her, obviously wondering if she had gone insane.

“You want me to lie?” Sophie asked.

“Are you really going to tell me that you’ve never lied, Sophie?” Kate asked.

“Kate, I—”

“Save it. I want you to go over there and tell Georgina exactly what I just told you.”

“Kate, I’m really not comfortable telling—”

“I wonder how comfortable you’ll feel when you’re unemployed?” Kate asked. Her unwavering stare scared Sophie into swallowing hard.

Sophie was getting to know Kate and her working practices better as the days wore on. She knew that Kate would never actually fire her over such a matter. And she knew that Kate knew that she knew that. But Kate was also well aware that Sophie was still scared of her, and she wasn’t afraid to use that advantage. Especially when Kate was as determined as she was at that moment. Sophie’s eyes flickered down to her hands where they fidgeted in her lap.

“I’ll take your silence to mean that you’ll do as I say?” Kate asked. She picked up her pen. “Now?”

Sophie nodded. She quickly stood up and left Kate’s office. She was beginning to seriously wonder if Yannis was going to get a campaign out of either agency. Georgina was starting to live up to the rumours of her difficult nature, too.

A couple of staff members from Mastery had been flown over, Georgina claiming that the Red Door staff were unable to provide her with the resources that she needed.

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