Page 1 of The CEO

CHAPTER ONE

pria

Squaring my shoulders,I held my chin high as I opened the door to the office of the man who wanted to take the jobs of hundreds of employees. What he didn’t know was that I didn’t plan to leave until I convinced him to let every single one of the people at Titan Investments keep their jobs.

Coming out of the bathroom, I saw the bane of my existence, Kingston Avery. He was tall, a few inches above six feet. His ten-thousand-dollar suit fit him as if it was made for him and I was sure it was. Blond hair fell over his forehead and his green eyes looked down as he tucked his semi-erect cock back into his pants.

He had no idea I was in the room until I squeaked and quickly turned around to face the door.

“What the fuck are you doing in here?” his baritone voice boomed.

“I’m your four o’clock. Ms. Wang.” I turned and looked around the room to see if we were alone. Was there a woman hiding in the corner or in the bathroom?

“Wang.” He said my last name like a stupid frat boy hearing the word fart or balls and snickering at it. His lips twitched and then thinned out.

I narrowed my gaze at him as his laser-like green eyes tried to eviscerate me. I’d never seen a man with eyes that looked like a frosted emerald. “I think you’ve got a little left-over dribble on your slacks.”

He didn’t look down. Instead, he stalked past me out to where his secretary sat. “Ms. Brooks, can you tell me why the fuck you let someone walk into my office without announcing them?”

“Um…” From that one word alone I could hear the fear in her voice.

“You’re fired,” he spat out before slamming his office door. My straight black hair blew into my face as he walked by. I tried to discreetly pull it out of my lip gloss while simultaneously wanting to run from his wrath. “Sit,” he growled out.

I wanted to tell him to fuck off. Kingston Avery had no right to take his anger out on me. I mean what on God’s green earth made him walk out of the bathroom with his cock in his hand when I came in?

I did as he demanded, though, because they always say you catch more flies with honey, and I couldn’t let down the hundreds of people who were counting on me to keep their jobs once the takeover was over.

“Why did you ask for this meeting?” He looked down at my hands lying in my lap and raised an eyebrow with a sexy smirk. “Ms. Wang?” A smirk I wanted to slap off his gorgeous face.

I studied him from across his desk. Kingston Avery looked like the drop-dead gorgeous next-door neighbor with chiseled cheekbones, full lips that made you want to feel them, for them to touch every inch of your skin and plump enough to nibble on, and a strong nose. But it was his cold green eyes that let youknow he wasn’t a man to fuck with. One wrong word and he could end your career and run you out of town.

I held my head high as I looked into those biting green eyes of his. I already knew this was a mistake. This wasn’t the sweet boy who used to do anything for his sister. I didn’t know who he was anymore, and it was obvious he had no idea who I was. Should I mention that we knew each other as children? Even though I felt it was impossible, I still had to try. “I’m here on behalf of all the employees of Titan Investments.”

“Let me stop you before you start, Ms. Wang.” Again, he smirked as he said my name. Internally, I rolled my eyes. It was strange, one word, my last name, made him act so childish when he was known to be such a hard-ass. There was no way I’d let it get to me now. I was over being made fun of for having the name Wang since the time I started grade school. “While it’s highly commendable that you think you have the power to change my mind, I regret to inform you that it’s impossible to bring on the entire company of Titan Investments. What you really should be concerned about is trying to convince me to let you keep your job.”

I ground my teeth together. “Mr. Avery, how can you in good conscience fire an entire company?”

“I’m not firing the entire company, Ms. Wang.” He arched an eyebrow. “I’m going to have you go through all the employees of Titan Investments and anyone who’s not up to par doing their job needs to go.”

“Why me?” I squeaked out.

“Why not?” He leaned back and put his hands behind his head. “You’re now the head of HR at Avery Capital Holdings unless you don’t want the job.”

It took everything in me not to jump for joy in my seat. Instead, I tried not to let show how excited I was at the prospect. “How much would I be making?”

“Starting off, your salary will be one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars. How does that sound to you?”

Sounds like I’d be buying a new wardrobe for my new job. Mama like. Mama like.

“Any benefits?” Like your luscious lips trailing down my body.

“All the standard benefits of health insurance, 401k, two weeks of vacation, and twos week sof sick pay for the first year and three for the next, Ms. Wang. Is that satisfactory to you?” Kingston brought his elbows down on his desk and clasped his large hands in front of him, his long fingers steepled under his chin.

My gaze roamed from his fingers up to luscious lips and back down again.

Damn his hands were big. I wondered if he was big everywhere. Wondered? I knew. But I wanted to see how big he was when he was fully erect.

Pria, you need to stop yourself. You’ve got Haider at home waiting for you and he loves you.

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