The Elevator: A 21st Century Romance (Book 1) Read Free Page A

lost. Rachael loved all of her employees as she was a rare CEO in the fact that she actually gave a damn about her employees and did not want to see any of them unemployed for the holidays. Rachael wished that this was not the case, but she knew that deep down it had to be done. After the meeting , Rachael met with Kiera and wanted a list of the employees that were able to be let go without causing too much damage to the operations of the company. After going through the list, there were a number of employees that were found to be non-essential to the operation of the company. One of these employees was that of Ted Forester. Ted was a janitor that had been hired a couple of years ago. Rachael had not been involved with the actual hiring of Ted and would not have known him if she fell over him. Rachael discovered that she was able to consolidate a couple of departments and allow one person to do the job of three. Rachael took the suggestions that Kiera had made in terms of the employees that could be let go and save the job a good amount of money. She went back to her office and sat there looking over the reports that had been presented to her. She hated that someone was going to be let go for the holiday season. It was hard for her to do that but the business side of her told her that this was something that needed to be done to protect her company.
     
    Rachael took the reports and headed back home. She had a long day and to a degree she was still feeling the effects of the night before as she normally did not drink that much on a work night. That, along with the fact that she was still worn out from the screwing that her and Jack had the night before. Rachael went to pick up the phone and call Jack to arrange for another encounter since the next day was a weekend. The thing that Rachael that she found herself doing was her calling her mother to ask what in the hell her mother had been thinking setting her up on a date with a man that was such a flaming jerk.
     
    “Hi mother, I want to thank you for setting me up on a date with a man that turned out to be a complete and total loser. All seemed well and fine when we went out on our date. He was the perfect gentleman. We came back to my place and soon began to drink wine and talk, one thing led to another and we wound up sleeping together. I woke up this morning to a note that in short told me that I was a great lay and that if I ever wanted to hook up with him again to give him a call.”
     
    “Well Rachael you should know that when you decide to be a slut and give a man the goods on a first date, that he will lose all respect for you. I assume that he did take the clue that you were a slut and that you were not good for more than a good time. I saved myself till I was married with your father.”
     
    “No mother do not give me that horse shit, you screwed Dad before you were married, that was how you wound up pregnant with me, remember us having that talk a few days ago. Let's face facts, you only married dad because you were knocked up with him. The question I have to ask is how many more men did you screw before your luck ran out with dad and he got you pregnant? Would you have married him had he not came in you and got you knocked up?”
     
    “Rachael Marie, I am ashamed of you, I would not have done that, I loved your father and we shared a night of passion. I would have married him even if you had not come along. I am insulted that you think that the reason that I married him was because of you. Nonetheless, this is not about me, it's about you and your inability to keep your legs closed. You need to learn better self-control and not let any man just have his way with you, men will lose respect for women that they see as being easy.”
     
    Rachael and her mother continued to exchange quips for another thirty minutes. After Rachael had got off the phone with her mother, Rachael needed a warm soak in the hot tub. Rachael went out to the backyard and turned on the