The Betrayer by Lexy Timms EPUB & PDF – eBook Details
- Author: Lexy Timms
- Language: English
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Paul
I GLANCED DOWN AT MY watch. It was 4:00 PM, and every movement
of the hand inched me closer to the evening.
Behind me, I could see the path in the industrial carpeting I had already
worn with my pacing, but it wasn’t going to get any better.
Not tonight.
Tonight was my company’s major gala. Our first significant gala, and it
was going to be one for the records—if everything went well. That wasn’t a
given, knowing it was our first and who was involved. Or, instead, who we
had to rely on.
Every vital member of the company would be out there, all the
executives, all the investors, and a ton of media. It was very nearly a circus.
In the morning, everything that happened tonight would be plastered across
the news channels, newspapers, magazines, blogs, and social media.
Everyone, from our supporters to our detractors, would dissect everything
from what people—and we—wore, to the speeches, to the auction items, to
the pageantry and food.
Everyone would witness our triumph or failure.
My pulse shot up higher, which I had previously thought was impossible.
Sweat trickled down my neck, under the collar of my tuxedo shirt. I dug into
my pocket and pulled out a small bottle, twisting open the top to pull out a
single, small pill that I downed without water.
Everything had to go well tonight—everything hinged on it. Everything
I’d built hung on a thread.
My tuxedo and shoes had been specially ordered from Italy months in
advance to ensure they arrived on time. My assistant and the event planner
had double- and triple-checked everything, from the guest list to the swag
bags, to the timing of the first canapés. They were doing a final walk-through
now. I had even gone over the music list this morning to ensure everything
was in its proper place.
Everything had been planned down to a T, and no hair was out of place. I
had to be ready to bring it home. Tonight, and the success of our company,
was on my shoulders.
Because it surely wasn’t going to be on my father’s.
He was the single wild card I couldn’t account for this evening. Would he
show up on time or late enough that he missed half the party? Would he even
show up at all?
The thought threatened to drench my suit, leaving its glistening fabric
damp and dull. Of all the people I should have been able to count on to help
make tonight perfect, to want to make tonight perfect, he should have been it.
But William Finlay was anything but reliable, even if he was still the CEO of
the company.
Truth be told, our titles should have been reversed—I did far more of the
job of CEO than he did. In the past five years since I took over as COO,
Chief Operating Officer, I had brought the company to new heights. I’d
cultivated investment and growth opportunities, courted investors, and,
finally, taken the company public.
Tonight’s event, a combination of a charity fundraiser and gala event,
would serve as a testament to how far we’d come as a company. But it was
also a celebration of how far I had taken the company, the accomplishments
I’d made as the COO over the high but not lofty heights my father had
initially managed to climb.
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