Courtland Chronicles 5 -Triad by Cat Grant

Author:Cat Grant [Grant, Cat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Erotica, Fiction, General
ISBN: 9781616501839
Google: Vpz4RAAACAAJ
Amazon: 1616501839
Publisher: Lyrical Press, Inc
Published: 2010-06-01T12:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Eric fled to his office the moment he arrived the following Monday morning, instructing his assistant to hold his calls and keep everyone out. Half the executive staff probably wanted to see him, but not until he’d had a chance to decompress and listen to his messages. Picking up the phone, he dialed into his voicemail, groaning when the clipped, polite recording told him he had over thirty messages.

Madeleine slipped in to bring him a pot of coffee and his regular mail while he was still on the phone. He poured himself a cup, sipping it absentmindedly while he listened to a few seconds of each message, then either forwarded them on to Madeleine to deal with or scribbled down some hasty notes on the handful of calls he needed to tackle himself.

He glanced at the list and frowned. He’d been expecting to hear from Emory Dalton by now. It’d been over a week since Eric had sent him the prospectus on the Asian expansion. Now Eric was almost afraid to talk to him, for fear of facing yet another rejection. Well, to hell with that. If he got the bad news out of the way early, maybe the rest of his day wouldn’t be too awful.

Picking up the phone, he dialed Dalton’s cell, suppressing a sigh when it went straight to voicemail. He left a quick message and hung up, hoping he hadn’t sounded too anxious. Then, fortified by a quickly quaffed cup of Jamaican Blue Mountain, he buzzed Madeleine and told her to open the floodgates.

Instantly there was a knock on the door, and Mike Barrett, Eric’s chief financial officer, poked his head in. “Can I have a minute?”

Eric beckoned him in, gesturing toward a nearby chair. “Have you been waiting outside the door since I got here?”

“Worse. I’ve been here for most of the weekend, trying to put out fires.” Eric gave him a swift head-to-toe once over; while Mike’s suit was impeccably pressed and every strand of blond hair in place, the steamer trunks under his eyes more than verified his story. “Six sizable blocks of CI stock have hit the markets since last week. That rumor’s got all the stockholders panicked.”

“You’ve known about this for days, and you didn’t call me?”

“Madeleine said you were dealing with a family emergency, and not to bother you unless it was life-or-death. Believe me, Eric, I didn’t know this was going to get so far out of hand. I’ve spent the past two days calling all the major stockholders, trying to convince them that they’ve got nothing to worry about. I think I’ve managed to calm most of them down.”

“Until another block shows up.” Great. So now he had a run on the company to deal with. Perfect start to a perfect day. “Buy up all remaining available shares. With this Asian deal on the line, the last thing we need is for the stock price to plummet.”

“Eric, the stock’s worth over a hundred million. We’re not that liquid right now.

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