Modern Romance Collection: May 2018 Books 1 - 4. Эбби Грин
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Название: Modern Romance Collection: May 2018 Books 1 - 4
Автор: Эбби Грин
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Короткие любовные романы
Серия: Mills & Boon Series Collections
isbn: 9781474084154
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“You’ve trained her well, Andreas.” Sebastian didn’t sound annoyed. He did look just slightly amused.
Kayla could have cheerfully kicked his shin under the table. This was her life they were talking about.
Andreas must have read something on her face because he reached out and pulled her right hand out of its clasp with her left to hold it. “Stay calm, pethi mou. Hawk is a reasonable man.”
“I have not refused and you are quite right, Kayla, your value to the company is such that I have no desire to see you move on. However, both of you must realize that KJ Software itself will do better with both Andreas and my expertise at its CEO’s disposal. It’s still a fairly new company and even folded into the structure of Hawk Enterprises, there are growing pains ahead.”
Kayla agreed. Of course she did. If she had her way, Andreas wouldn’t be selling the company at all, but that wasn’t what he wanted. He wanted to take his money and business skills and bring success to other ventures.
Andreas frowned. “Those growing pains will happen because it’s a strong company that will add significantly to Hawk Enterprises.”
“Agreed.” Hawk didn’t add anything else.
No compromise there. From either man.
“I came to New York to settle my future, not scuttle Andreas’s plans.” Kayla stood up. “I won’t allow you to make my keeping my five percent a condition of the deal, Andreas. This is too important to you.”
“And it is not important to you?” He stood too, his hand still holding hers. “Come, sit back down, this is part of business. I know not a part you enjoy, but that is why you needed me here.”
She’d needed him there because he knew that Sebastian Hawk wanted something Kayla could never have promised on Andreas’s behalf. Nor would she want to. She ignored his claim when she answered, “I think we’ve all said what needed saying.”
She pulled her hand from his and turned to offer it to Sebastian. “Thank you for meeting with me. Let me know if you decide my terms are acceptable.”
Sebastian had stood when Andreas did. He took her hand and shook it with all evidence of friendliness and good will. “Kayla, you are a brilliant programmer. Do not underestimate how much I want you to stay on at KJ Software.”
Just not enough to make the deal without the added incentive of Andreas maintaining a connection to the company. She got the silent message.
Unable to force words past her suddenly constricted throat, she simply nodded.
Andreas cursed in Greek. It was something he did when he was really frustrated, a habit he’d developed young, he’d told her once. He’d learned the words from friends of his mother’s, other transplanted Greeks she made sure he was exposed to during his childhood, wanting him to maintain a heritage from her homeland.
He moved quickly to stand beside her, his arm going around her waist in a way that was not at all appropriate for a business meeting. But then calling her by Greek endearments hadn’t been either.
Andreas pulled her into his side. “Pleasure, Hawk. I put my own proposal forward to Kayla yesterday. If she agrees, you can consider your terms acceptable.”
Kayla nearly choked on the air she was trying to drag into her lungs. He had not just said that. Peeking up at his profile, she was snagged by an all-too-serious green gaze.
She bit back her own epithet. Oh, he’d said it all right. And just like everything else he said, he meant it.
“Whatever you proposed must be very important to you.” Sebastian was back to looking at her quizzically.
Kayla gave him a sickly smile. “Goodbye, Sebastian.”
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