Wanting something you can't walk away from is bad for business.
I close deals that other people can't.
Show up. Charm the room. Walk out with the signature.
Then I bought a stranger a drink at a bar in Manhattan.
We exchanged first names and forgot the rest of the world existed.
She was gone before sunrise and I was on a plane back to New Orleans by nine.
Deal closed.
Or so I thought.
Turns out she's the Commissioner's daughter.
My new hire.
Carrying my baby.
So I did what I do best. I made her an offer to contain the fallout.
A fake engagement. A temporary marriage.
Eighteen months of pretending, then she walks away with the baby and her career intact.
My company avoids a scandal.
On paper, the best deal of my career.
The problem is I keep forgetting it's pretend.
Forgetting that her side of the bed has an expiration date.
Forgetting that I'm the one who wrote the terms.
I've never lost a negotiation in my life.
But every morning I wake up next to her, I keep trying to renegotiate the one deal I should have left alone.
Genre: Romance
I close deals that other people can't.
Show up. Charm the room. Walk out with the signature.
Then I bought a stranger a drink at a bar in Manhattan.
We exchanged first names and forgot the rest of the world existed.
She was gone before sunrise and I was on a plane back to New Orleans by nine.
Deal closed.
Or so I thought.
Turns out she's the Commissioner's daughter.
My new hire.
Carrying my baby.
So I did what I do best. I made her an offer to contain the fallout.
A fake engagement. A temporary marriage.
Eighteen months of pretending, then she walks away with the baby and her career intact.
My company avoids a scandal.
On paper, the best deal of my career.
The problem is I keep forgetting it's pretend.
Forgetting that her side of the bed has an expiration date.
Forgetting that I'm the one who wrote the terms.
I've never lost a negotiation in my life.
But every morning I wake up next to her, I keep trying to renegotiate the one deal I should have left alone.
Genre: Romance
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