Secrets Told by Allie Everhart

Author:Allie Everhart [Everhart, Allie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Gavin

"What's going on?" I ask Sandra, Peter's assistant, as I walk into my cubicle. She was leaned over writing something but stood up when she heard my voice.

"I was writing you a note. Peter wants to talk to you."

"I thought he was out of town."

"He is. It's a phone meeting. He'll call in a few minutes. He wants you to go in the conference room."

"Why can't I do it here?"

She shrugs. "Don't know. He didn't say." She walks off.

Great. I'm probably in trouble for being late. I'm only an hour late, which is nothing. Besides, after all the overtime I've put in, I deserve to come in late now and then.

I go to the conference room and wait. Ten minutes later the phone rings.

I pick it up. "Mr. Farrell?"

"Gavin, it's Jett," he says in his usual upbeat tone. He should've gone into sales. He's always on, always full of energy, always got that huge grin on his face. Those traits works for politics too but a lot of politicians are dry and serious. Jett brings an energy wherever he goes. It's why people listen to him and why he's so persuasive. You talk to him for less than five minutes and find yourself agreeing to whatever he asked you to do, which explains how I ended up working for him.

"Where's Mr. Farrell?" I ask.

"He'll get on soon. He had another call to take care of. So how's Gavin doing today?"

"I'm fine. Busy."

"It's good to be busy. Successful people are busy."

There he goes again, trying to convince me to accept his definition of success. He does this all the time, not just to me, but the entire staff. He tells us what we should believe and what we should think is important, but he does so in a way that you don't really know he's doing it.

"You're going places, Bishop," he says. "Stick with me and you'll rise to the top."

Good thing this isn't a videoconference because I just rolled my eyes. I used to admire Jett and found his words to be inspiring, but that was before I was forced to listen to him constantly complimenting himself. He does it at every staff meeting, and then he reminds us how lucky we are to work for him. I'll admit he's smart and is an expert at persuasion, but as a person, I don't like him. He's fake and full of himself, even more so than the rich, pompous people I grew up around.

"Good morning, Gavin." It's Peter joining the call. "Sorry I was late. I was in a meeting. So how's everything at the office today?"

"I have the revised proposal ready for you to review."

"Excellent. I'll read it when I get back. Or better yet, email it to me. I'll review it on the plane. So anyway, we wanted to talk to you about the campaign."

"What about it?"

"Jett needs more people on staff, and given what a great job you've done so far, he's asked if he could have you full-time.

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