All Chapters of The Billionaire's Choice : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

BrieI looked around at the extravagant banquet that the company had thrown in honor of our new boss, feeling both excited and anxious. As one of the executives of the company and the head of the human resources department, I sat at the foremost table just before the stage, along with my colleagues. I was in my zone and sat relaxed, back straight, and chin up.As I glanced around the room, I noticed a tall figure with short blonde hair in a snug gray suit striding confidently to the podium. The way he looked as he moved with quick, confident strides first to the old chairman who sold the company to him and then stepping on the podium brought back a flood of memories, from the shape of his shoulders to the way he moved, fluid like pure water. While I still tried to place where I had seen this very person before, he turned to face the crowd.And I gasped, ignoring the puzzled looks of my colleagues, my eyes trained solely on the man, on the very person who made the first years of my lif

BrieJust one week in and I wanted to tear out my hair and scream. I wanted to plead with every known and unknown higher being to get me out of this mess.Was it my resting bitch face? Or was it because I ran the HR department with an iron fist? I had always been a tough boss. I set high standards for my employees, for myself, and I demanded nothing less than perfection. But lately, it seemed like Alex was my personal punishment for being so hard on everyone. Everywhere I went, there he was, lurking around the corner like a bad omen. I couldn't shake him off no matter how hard I tried.I knew it wasn’t nice to think of your boss like that, but I was at my wits end. It all started with a chance encounter in the elevator on his very first day. I had been the only one in the metal car, seeing as the morning rush of employees wasn’t scheduled for the next thirty minutes. I had always liked to be in my office an hour before time, either so I could catch up on a backlog of files from the p

BrieI never imagined that I'd be in this situation, but here I was, preparing the most outrageous plan with Alex to increase our ‘exposure’. It was a bizarre scenario, given that we had never really gotten along, and for as long as we had known each other our relationship had been characterized by an intense feeling – bordering on the wrong side of the love-hate line – for each other. However, when it came down to business, we were willing to put our personal differences aside and work together to achieve our goals.And this was business, at least to me. The contents of the contract sitting prettily on my desk at home still made my head spin, and I almost screamed when I got the first payment not too long after I signed it. If there was one thing I knew for sure about Alex was that he kept his promises down to the very last letter.I had a hundred thousand dollars just sitting in my account, waiting for the rest of the payment, and all I had to do was be seen with the man in public.