After a pause, her face broke out into a wide grin. “Perfect you’re hired.”
“I am, just like that?” Thank god.
“Just like that,” she confirmed.
I beamed at her. “Thank you so much ma'am.”
“Come on back here sweetheart and let’s get you set up. The name’s Linda by the way.”
I followed Linda through the door behind the counter, amazed at how easy this had been.
Kyle
“Aren’t you even going to consider my offer? It’s what’s best for the company Kyle.”
I stared at the man sitting in front of me. He looked exactly like me, thirty years in the future. “Nope,” I replied, shifting my legs onto my desk. That irritated him. Good, let the bastard squirm. I folded my arms across my chest, just to make a further point.
“Why do you have to be so fucking awkward? I’m only trying to help you out son.”
I had to clench my fists to keep myself from knocking him out. “It’s a little late to be calling me that. Why don’t you go focus your attention on that shit stain of a son of yours and let me take care of myself?”
His face reddened and I could tell he was losing his cool facade. “You stupid little shit. You know what your problem is? You're too goddamn proud to ask for help.”
I smirked relishing in the fact that I was annoying the crap out of him and he was showing his true colors. “Let’s just cut the crap here David, you’re pissed that your dear old daddy entrusted me with his empire and not you.” That was exactly what this little intervention was about.
He slammed his chair back and leaned over my desk. “You’re going to destroy everything he built,” he snarled. “You’re a fucking kid. You haven’t even graduated from college. You don’t know the first thing about running this place nor will you have the time once you go back to school. He was my father, this should have been mine.”
Ah finally, a little truth, I was wondering when he would admit it. I slipped my legs off the desk and leaned towards him. “It sucks when your father lets you down, doesn’t it dad?”
Chapter Two
Lee
I should have known coming here was a bad idea from the get-go. Parties were not my thing. This was my first one actually.
Leaving home and moving across the country was now most definitely coming back to bite me in the butt. The Hill was a million light years away from the world I left behind.
I was shy. I kept myself to myself. Cam was my polar opposite; vivacious and wildly spontaneous. This party had her name stamped all over it and I knew I didn’t have a hope of escaping. As it stood, the bedroom she’d allocated to me was occupied with a drunk couple. I should have locked my door. I would in future.
“Heads up Lee.”
I turned just in time to receive a beach ball in the face. I glared at the perpetrator whose face was newly familiar to me, Derek Porter. From the brief amount of time we had spoken this morning at the breakfast table, I gathered he was a joker. “Excuse me Derek,” I muttered as I moved past him. I needed some space.
Outside in the back garden was not much better, but at least I wasn’t in danger of beach ball attacks or food fights. Were these people really over twenty-one? I felt forty beside them.
“Will you lighten up and have some fun?” Cam approached me in all her partial naked glory. I took in the skimpy beige stretch dress she wore that barely covered her girly parts and cringed for her. The color of her dress complemented her sun kissed skin and long blonde hair. She was stunning to the eye. I could never wear anything so short and revealing, I hadn’t worn a dress since the second grade. I looked frumpy beside her still in my white shirt and black pants I’d worked in today.
I discreetly pulled my long dark hair from its ponytail. My curls, now a tangled mess flowed down my back. My sneakers were worn, but clean and they were staying securely on my feet. God knows what could be on the ground at a party like this with all these drunk people.
“I can’t help it. I’m not used to this Cam. I have to get some sleep.”
I was supposed to start work at seven in the morning. The hotel was uppity on the large scale, scattered with several bars and dining rooms on the ground floor. Thankfully, I was upstairs cleaning the rooms. There were sixty-one bedrooms, twelve on each floor and the penthouse suite on the eighth and top floor. Linda said the hotel was just one in a chain of twenty across the country and the pay at was great at eleven dollars an hour. I’d worked my first ten-hour shift today and it was good, the other staff seemed friendly especially one of the bartenders whom I had met on my break, I think his name was Mike. I knew I was damn lucky to have gotten the job. My only previous experience in the workforce was a cashier job at Moe’s Gas Station in Montgomery and my abrupt departure two months ago meant I couldn’t exactly call on Moe for a reference. I hadn’t seen my old boss or stepped foot inside the building since my father’s…Decision to have me quit.