Too bad for me he didn’t come in any other flavor. His voice was laced with honey, but it was all wrong… like honey left to freeze and crack on ice.Īfter spilling water on my phone, dropping my earrings into the garbage disposal, being rear-ended on the interstate, and having to wait for the cops to come and tell us what we both already knew-that it was the other guy’s fault-the last thing I needed this morning was a grumpy Mr. Ryan stood in the doorway to my office that served as an anteroom to his. But my father also said, “You realize early in life that beauty is only skin-deep, and ugly goes straight to the bone.” I’d had my fair share of unpleasant men in the past few years, dated a few in high school and college. I’d hear all of the other women in the office gossip about his escapades and wonder if a nice face was all it took. He was the most self-righteous, pompous prick I’d ever met. My stomach clenched tightly at the thought of him: tall, gorgeous, and entirely evil. It just so happened that in this case, I was the right hand that most days wanted to slap the damn face. And I’d definitely become the Right Hand. Learn their world, and they’ll snatch you up the second you finish your degree.” “Become the person the CEO can’t live without. “To get the job at the top, you’ve got to start at the bottom,” he told me. My father always said the way to learn the job you want is to spend every second watching someone do it.
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