The Executive Liaison by Anna Stone EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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“Hey, you can’t do that anymore. Remember?”
Isabel bit into her lunch, a sandwich she’d bought at the shop across
the street long before work started.
Know what I remember? The sandwich bar we used to have in our old
office. Those were the days. Nap pods. Unlimited snacks. Friday night happy
hour with drinks paid for by the company.
The startup’s old offices had been a broke college grad’s paradise. Their
new offices in the Black Diamond Building?
Not so much.
Isabel swallowed. “Why does it matter where I eat my lunch?”
Her best friend Alexis shrugged. “I’m just saying. You’re not allowed to
eat at your desk anymore.”
“I always eat lunch at my desk. Besides, this isn’t even my desk. It’s
everyone’s desk.” Isabel glared around at the open, sterile co-working space
she shared with her coworkers. It was bad enough that they’d moved their
entire office to a different building in a completely different part of Seattle,
one so far from Isabel’s studio apartment that she had to wake up almost an
hour earlier just to get to work on time. But to not even have her own desk?
And she couldn’t spend her workdays commiserating with Alexis since
their departments were at opposite ends of the office. In the old office, they
had only been a quick kick of a wheeled chair away from one another. The
old office was smaller than this one, but that just made it cozier. Everything
had been looser there. Less corporate.
All that had changed when Connect was sold to Black Diamond
Holdings. The news had come swiftly, albeit with a big smile from the
startup’s previous CEO and enough applause and streamers dropping from
the ceiling that Isabel wondered if they were transferring to Hawaii. Instead,
that was where the CEO retired.
On his yacht. With his new girlfriend half his age.
So here they were, one month later, in their brand-new office in the Black
Diamond Building.
Isabel should have been excited. After all, she was twenty-three and
already working for a successful startup that was going to change the world.
Connect was everything Isabel believed in. It was an app that connected
people to others in their community. Want to find the best tamales in your
neighborhood? We’ve got you covered. Want to learn how to start a
vegetable garden? There are four people on your street wanting to do the
same thing.
The app’s mission statement was simple and to the point. In a world
where community life was dying and capitalism ruled, how did one go about
making meaningful connections and breaking free from their reliance on big
corporations, especially in large cities like Seattle? Many people couldn’t
afford to move away from the city, but the urban areas were pricing them out
all the same. Connect wasn’t just about helping someone find a guitar tutor. It
was about building community, swapping skills, bartering instead of relying
on the almighty dollar.
Everything about it appealed to Isabel when she applied for a graphic
design position after graduating from college. She’d become the head of the
department within six months. “We want young, forward-thinking minds,”
CEO Evan Albright had said during her interview. “You guys are the future.
Help us build the world you want to grow old in.” His vision had seemed like
such a noble one.
Isabel should have known better.
She sighed. “I miss the sandwich bar.”
“You can thank our new overlords for that,” Alexis said. “Black Diamond
isn’t going to give you a literal free lunch every day. Let’s face it—it was
always too good to last. Everything about this startup was. Evan really
conned us into thinking he was different from the other Silicon Valley types.”
Isabel murmured in agreement. If she had taken Connect’s surprise
acquisition hard, Alexis had taken it much harder. She believed in the
startup’s vision even more than Isabel did. Social media engineer Alexis was
the cornerstone for getting the word out about Connect. Marketing spent the
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