Seduced By The Candidate (The Candidate, #1) Read Free

Four years later, she
graduated summa cum laude but was
still unwilling to enter the workplace. When the offer of another scholarship
had been made, she had leapt at the chance and threw herself into a Master’s
degree in Business Administration, which she had also graduated summa cum laude.
    Charlotte was exceptionally talented. Every one of her tutors
encouraged her to go on to do great things and make a real name for herself.
She shook her head and watched the curling steam dance up the wall. If any of
those tutors could see her now they’d be appalled. Charlotte Turner, one of the
brightest students that they’d ever seen taking a P.A’s job with a bad tempered
Republican asshole. Why? Well, that was the twenty thousand dollar question
wasn’t it? She had no one else to blame but herself.
    Charlotte knew academia, she was comfortable with the routine,
the discipline and the detachment and she didn’t want to leave it. She had
waited for another opportunity to present itself, another scholarship offer to
land on her doormat and make her decision easy, but as the weeks went by,
nothing came. By then, all of the best internships had been filled and as
stunning as her qualifications were, no one was going to wait forever on the
off chance that their dream employee will simply walk through the door.
    Her parents weren’t particularly wealthy and with no
scholarship to pay her way, it was clear that she had no future in the school
system. She also had no chance of getting a job that reflected her
qualifications without a great deal of searching, and untold weeks of
interviews wouldn’t pay the bills or put food on the table. She was broke, out
of time and as unpalatable as it was, she was seriously thinking about waitressing
jobs just to make ends meet. That was when John Lyndsey had called her.
    He was intelligent, articulate and clearly an academic. She
liked him straightaway. She liked him even more when he asked her if she would
be interested in a job working as a P.A to Senator William Goulding, the
Republican candidate in the forthcoming Presidential election race. Wow! Being
a personal assistant didn’t exactly fill her with inspiration, but then again,
she wasn’t exactly in a position to be fussy.
    What made it much, much more appealing however was working
closely with Goulding. She might have been something of a social recluse, but
she wasn’t blind or deaf and anyone with even half an ear to the ground knew
about Goulding. He was a military hero and his achievements in politics where
almost unheard of. He was also pretty damn sexy, although she had to admit that
men, sexy or otherwise were not exactly her strong point.
    Of course, she had taken the job. So far, it was an unmitigated
disaster! Goulding was a dick, sexy, but an dick
nonetheless and she had found that working for a living was far more difficult
than studying for either one of her degrees. This was only her fourth day and
already she had pissed off her boss, alienated half of the office and failed
miserably in trying to figure out her predecessors filing system! Worst of all,
there was still one day to go until the weekend. God only knew what she could
mess up in that time!      
    The fact that Goulding’s predecessor had made such a swift exit
was still something that she didn’t really understand. Madeline Carter was by
all accounts a wonderful, highly efficient addition to Goulding’s campaign
team. With only six weeks to go until D-Day, she left almost overnight. True,
she had been offered a much more senior position with another Republican
politician, but from what little she knew about the woman, Charlotte would have
thought that she would have wanted to see out the campaign and help her boss to
a seat in the White House. For no other reason than to prevent the considerable
inconvenience involved in finding a replacement. Still, her loss was
Charlotte’s gain and she was certainly not going to look a gift horse in the
mouth, even