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Chapter 1 - Charli

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How had I gotten so lucky?

Sure, soht out of college, but this was alh the two-year journalisree I’d started when I was seventeen, I had already landed a job with the editor and publisher of Here and Now, the country’s biggest current affairs azine

I pinched e just toI had dreams like that a lot The phrase “daydreams and aspirations” was literal in h my dreams

I didn’t understand what had et as far in the selection process as I could, but still, there irls ready to throw puppies out of s to have an opportunity like the one I’d been offered

Pride and anxiety fought a pitched battle inrole and anxiety that I’d secured such an i with the IT Depart at the larger organizations

CEOs were only human and therefore equipped with the standard-issue two hands and one brain (though the latter was debatable sos like ood and to help justify their high salaries

To be fair, the greatest aement Even the finest trainer still couldn’t herd cats

I felt a little twinge of worry when I thought about the particular CEO of thefor, as known to be a player I didn’t just irlfriend, but I also s—pets, as he called theazine in response to tabloid ru that he enjoyed BDSM

“Yes, I do,” he had written “And there is nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to that People have different tastes and proclivities, and I have very particular needs BDSM can help us explore the world within ourselves Through pleasure Through pain Through play”

There were some women who refused to even apply to work there thanks to that op-ed But I couldn’t forget the words he had written because they excited me