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Perfect, in other words, for Mike Bournha Fortune 500 CEO and soon-to-be billionaire

"I can give you fifteen et to the point"

"OK, then" Calm, slow sip of his iced coffee A simmer built in Mike, who knew a power play when he saw it Jonah needed him Not the other way around Not quite true – twenty percent spike in sales! – but Mike reht noere slipping out of his favor

He had quite enough of that already in his life, with Lydia

"We'd like for you to work on poking her," Jonah paused irin at the corner of his lips, eyes on Mike, weighing out whether to let the joke be acknowledged Whatever he saw in Mike's face told hi with a Don Draper-type boss"

Second reference to Don Draper in one week And he looked nothing like Jon Hamm

"Liberated ferabbed his s that! Mike, you're a natch at this"

"That's why I' and grinned as he typed Oh, brother

"Here" Jonah produced a sheath of papers "New script"

"Can't you just send , and this way I can read it on the road"

Tap tap tap Thescreen, then shouted, "Done!" with a flourish, his finger sasrinned slyly "Any chance you and Linda ht – "

"Lydia" The slow siht She was part of the series, like it or not A light bulb went off "Hold on How do you secure permission to run these shows if the people who I interact with don't know abut the ca "We ask after the fact Blur out their faces if they refuse Most people though, man," he shook his head slowly, contemplative suddenly "They don't say no"

"Their fifteenlike that" He clapped Mike on the shoulder as they stood, the familiarity a bit too unctuous "I'e when she finds out"

A privilege

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Chapter Four

Three hours of yoga Two hours of careful breathing ht that she was calh to handle the presentation She had done the research She kne to assemble the various coreat hair day to boot

So, as she smoothed out the skirt and pulled her shirt over it, her curves covered by nicely tailored clothes, she stared herself in the eye in the rinned , that’s for sure Everything She had tried to talk to Dave about why the job got filled and he claimed to know even less than she did That "somebody at corporate had just sent Matt down" bullshit – without a word of warning – left her about 50/50 on whether she was going to believe hiey He'd lied to her on both personal and professional levels, so as far as she was concerned Dave was an obstacle

A powerful one, unfortunately

Dave was the epitouy with a Harvard MBA and an ego the size of the tuition price tag She was taking a huge risk by doing this presentation because if Dave liked it he would co-opt it In that sense, she was glad to have Matt there because if Matt were a decent guy – where to put hi as he lived soured he’d back her up if Dave decided to run with the credit If Dave didn’t like it, the idea was dead in the water Although, she supposed if she wanted to go job hunting she could use it as an example of the quality of her work But really, as she? She was a twenty-five year old with a Master's degree in a subject that corporate America considered to be hippieland, or worse – threatening