Set Me Free by Jennifer Collin

Author:Jennifer Collin [Collin, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, (v5), Romance
Amazon: B00CKN505A
Published: 2013-04-28T05:00:00+00:00

She left. As Craig watched Margie take her arm in an overly familiar, almost conspiratorial way and lead her to the lifts, he felt his blood heat. Damn Keith and his fucking games.

Unfathomably, their strongest resistor, their most difficult stakeholder, had, unsolicited, offered them the path of least resistance. A cooperative community. And in exchange for plans that were ridiculously similar and almost as good as the originals. The ones he thought he'd submitted to the council.

Before Keith made his move.

Two weeks earlier, confident the designs he’d arranged for Margie to submit would be online, Craig went to view them on the council’s website. To his horror he discovered the plans weren't there, and in their place was a bland prefabricated ten-storey apartment building that wouldn’t look out of place in the USSR.

Furious, he accused Margie of fucking up and for the first time in their working history, reduced her to tears. Eventually, when he finally gave her the opportunity, she explained Keith had emailed her a package of designs later that same day, saying they were the updated files. With no cause to question why Keith would do so, she simply followed the boss’s instructions.

Subsequently, Craig found himself barging into Keith’s office and unleashing his anger on said boss. Keith puffed himself up in righteous indignation, harrumphed somewhat about the bottom line and finally dared Craig to withdraw them. They glared at each other like gunslingers; each well aware that if there was any delay to the project the financier would back out. Particularly if it appeared that delay was the result of internal squabbling.

Craig eventually backed down, and accepted Keith’s designs as the ones submitted for approval. It was a potential disaster for the company that could go a number of ways, but he doubted approval, based on those designs, was one of them. It would get declined, and the financiers would either extend their deadline or not.

Keith knew it, and judging by the glint in his eye, he was banking on the latter. His opposition to Craig’s division was becoming irrational.

‘You've got to see reason about this bloody project,’ he told Keith as he stormed into his office once more, immediately after Charlotte’s departure. ‘She just handed us an opportunity to get this thing through council without any local resistance and you walked out on her.'

‘I’ve got to see reason?’ thundered Keith. ‘I’ll tell you what I can see. I can see right bloody through you! How dare you bring that little miss in here to tell me how I should run my bloody company? I’ve been in this business for forty years – I think I know a thing or two about bloody development.’

‘Actually, Keith, I don’t think you do. You're still stuck forty years in the past, investing in projects that were bad ideas even then. The world has moved on. But you haven’t. Even a bloody nobody off the street can see that. You should have listened to her.' Not that Craig considered Charlotte a nobody, and she was apparently trained, but Keith didn’t need to know that.

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