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“No She’s fine” Lucie told hi over the course of the last two days
“Alright I’ll stop by” Cole conceded, knowing Lucie didn’t want to go into detail at the club, and he couldn’t necessarily bla Cole with his drink and a ton of worries
The things he had on hisout of the noret past the, he wouldn’t have a care in the world, but apparently that wasn’t the case Although he’d spent alht for the past couple of weeks with Sierra and Luke, he couldn’t help but think they had coement that required them to determine what the next steps were
The fact that he had told both Sierra and Luke that he loved them, and they hadn’t returned the sentih he had told the the heat of the moment, he wondered if they kne hard it had been for hi in return left hihe did
Thankfully Alex McDerhts as he pulled back a chair at the table and sat doith the sa else with
“Thanks forLucie’s attention
Alex was a regular at the club, both of them in fact, but no one knew much about him other than he had become more and more irritated over the last feeeks Cole had an idea as to as causing that irritation, but it was none of his business, and he and Alex weren’t what he would consider friends, so he wasn’t about to broach the subject
“No problem What’s up?” Cole knew this had to be about business because that was the only ti to help get his s better left alone, he was anxiously awaiting the reason for the i
“I need your help” Alex adht” Cole hesitated
“I want to hire you”
Assuing Alex to continue The last tias and based on the feedback he’d received, they had druood for Alex and the man had compensated Cole nicely
“Permanently” Alex added then paused for Lucie to set the drink on the table “Thanks” He told her before turning back to Cole
“Per perued hiotten too busy, and I can’t see double to try and fulfill her contract with XTX while helping out with a couple of other big clients we’ve recently taken on, I’, and since Dylan has continued to be reclusive, I’m unable to convince him to handle any of the PR work that we need”
“Why ood at what you do So, before you say no, let h the state Cole’s immediate rejection
For the next half hour Cole listened to Alex’s spiel The ht before approaching hi to hire Cole as the front man for their public relations work, he didn’t realize how much better he would be at the job if he just handled it himself But, that didn’tas he could rethat he could look forward to day in and day out
That longing had spilled over into his personal as well as his professional life and Cole figured this wasn’t necessarily a bad place to start
“I’ Alex into complete silence
After a few tension filled seconds passed, Alex blurted, “You’re in? Just like that?”
“Just like that”
“Well hell I thought it would be a harder sell than that You should’ve seen the hoops I had to ju the story Logan had shared with hihly escalated HR violations, Alex had co XTX to benefit from her employment In the end, it had all worked out, so obviously Alex was a better salesht