Salt (Island Love Book 1) by Fearne Hill

Author:Fearne Hill [Hill, Fearne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-04-10T00:00:00+00:00

Afterwards, we cuddled on the sofa, with my arm slung around Florian’s shoulder and his head resting on my chest. Out on the garden bench after I’d recovered my faculties, I’d reciprocated the hand job, minus the added extras and with much less finesse, even if it did reach the same speedy conclusion.

“I can’t concentrate when you put those on,” he grumbled as I reached for my glasses.

I peered at him over the top of them sternly. “You’ve a strange idea of what you find attractive in a lover, Florian, anyone ever tell you that?”

I coloured at my use of the word lover; I was sure there must be a less laden, more vernacular term, but French slang had moved along since I’d lived in Paris, and I’d not moved with it.

“I have discerning taste,” he corrected, “When it comes to choosing a lover.”

Trust him not to let me get away with it. Flustered, I picked up the papers. “I’ve divided my background analysis of the situation into two parts and I’m sending it to you via email. The first section is a list of reasons why joining forces with Selco would be a bad idea in the medium to long-term. We’ve discussed most of them already. Your task is to convince everyone else.”

Florian huffed. “Nothing much, then. Just an Oscar-winning performance.”

“Exactly.” I pressed a soft kiss into his dark curls. “That’s exactly how you should approach it. My business partner, Marcus, for all his faults, does this better than anyone I know. Numbers and graphs aren’t enough. He always says you need a mix of three ingredients: credibility, logic, and emotion. Clients, or in your case, colleagues, need to hear the cold, hard facts, but you must also paint a picture they can believe in. And it’s got to be personal. You need to appeal to their hearts, not only their minds.”

“I’m not sure Jerome’s father has a heart.”

“Everyone has a heart. You’ve got to work out what makes it beat, that’s all. Easy.” Mine currently beat in tune to the young man curled into me.

He snorted. “Yeah, right. What’s the other half of your analysis about?”

I shuffled through the papers. “It’s not going to be enough to slate Selco. You need to offer an alternative.”

“I don’t want an alternative. I want to carry on being independent.”

“Exactly. But the Selco bid has actually done you a favour. It’s exposed your weaknesses. And as I’ve already warned you, another Selco will come along if you’re not careful.”

“And you won’t be around to show me how to fight them.”

Although he kept his tone light, I sensed his shoulder stiffen.

“No,” I answered. “It is extremely likely that I won’t.” I tapped my pen on the top sheet, black and white blotting out a sudden dimming of green. “But you won’t need me, because if you do things right, no one will be interested in being taken over. Look here.”

He raised his head to where I pointed. “I’ve outlined a modernisation strategy for the cooperative.

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