Chapter 10

The next day I arrived at work at about 0800 and had my usual meeting with Lorna and we agreed to go for lunch at about midday providing that the important meeting I had at 0900 was finished.

My company lawyer arrived a few moments later and we discussed what we were wanting out of the meeting that was about to start.

I was about to meet with the director of Headline Publishing who was thinking about selling up and I was hoping to convince him that his best option was to let me buy him out. Robertson Publishing has already been named as one of the top five publishing companies in the world and hopefully if I can pull this takeover off I will become number 1 which will be amazing, a dream come true. I won’t accept a merger, this is my company so I either buy him out or do nothing at all. Headline Publishing is also in the top 5 publishers, it would be an honour to turn it into Robertson Publishing.

The meeting went well but it lasted for hours eventually finishing at about 1500. Mr Hammond, the director of Headline Publishing seemed impressed by my presentation and promised he would look over my offer and come into the office to see me tomorrow before he left to go home to Washington and would give me his answer then.

‘I am never going to be able to sleep until I know what his answer is.’

I heard a faint knock at the door and without waiting for an answer Lorna came in with lunch for me.

“I took it upon myself to order you something to eat since the meeting was going on for a while, I hope you don’t mind.” She hands me a brown paper bag and sits herself down after closing the door behind her.

“Thanks sweetie, you’re a star. Is everything ok?”

“Yeah, everything is fine, I am just curious about how the meeting went, I know you want it kept top secret until you have an answer. Oh and Tyler called reminding you to talk to PR about releasing a statement.”

“Damn, I forgot about that.” I scribbled a quick note in front of me and took a bite out of my sandwich.

“God, I am hungry.

“The meeting seemed to go well but Mr Hammond has gone away to look at the offer and is coming back tomorrow at 1000 to let me know his decision. I am so nervous there is no way I will be able to sleep tonight, I really hope TK comes round when he gets back, he does not know about the takeover but he will still take my mind off things.”

“Well, I shall keep my fingers crossed that Mr Hammond likes the contract and will put in your diary that he is coming back in the morning.”

I called my PR department and asked them to release a statement about Tyler and me, giving them the relevant details and who the statement should be issued too.

I went home and made some food and it was soon time came for the game starting so I switched over to FSN Pittsburgh to see the guys finishing their warm up.

The game went well with both TK and Sidney taking a couple of points each. Shortly after the game finished my phone beeped just as I was crawling into bed.

‘I will get dropped off at your house when we get back after the game, I miss you. Wake me up and I will come for a run with you and will probably go back to bed when you leave for work. I will try not to waken you when I come in. See you soon hunny, sleep well.’

‘I like when he calls me hunny.’

‘OK gorgeous, see you soon. I have missed you too. That was a good game by the way.’