The Carrero Effect - Falling for the Boss (Billionaire CEO)

I catch Jake glaring at me across the table and stop twisting my hair for the fiftieth time; he’s been touchy this entire trip.

Who would have thought a week’s worth of screwing leggy bimbos actually made him more goddamn sulky?

I thought sex was meant to put men in a great mood, it must have been awful sex.

I look him up and down, trying to appraise that possibility.

I’m sure he couldn’t do bad sex, if I’m being honest. He has more stamina than most humans I know and he’s an attentive man naturally. I wonder if women can make sex shitty, even if they’re being bedded by a “sexpert”. Even though I don’t have carnal knowledge of his bed hopping habits, I am pretty sure his confidence is a great hint that he doesn’t have complaints in the bedroom.

He’s barking orders at his cell and I’m glad it’s not me on the receiving end. Bear with a sore head certainly suits his mood this past forty-eight hours. The lawyers are moaning and whining in the next room over his absence, and I’m sitting here waiting with pen in hand for the notes he wants me to take.

It’s after lunch and I’m hungry. We haven’t stopped to eat yet and my hair is sticking to my face in this oppressive heat. I regret not being able to tie it up and keep blowing it away.

We’re back in Vegas, same business, second time round and I wasn’t prepared for the soaring temperatures. I move in my jacket uncomfortably and catch another glare.

God’s sake!

He’s been all over me these past two days, tugging my hands out of my hair, slapping my fingers when I play with my pen, now I’m getting the eye assault for moving in my chair.

What’s eating grouchy?

I’m the model of professionalism ninety-nine percent of the time, he can’t be pissed over the one percent which fidgets under duress. Especially when he’s the cause of it.

“Emma?” He barks and snaps my attention up.

“What?” I sound equally narky, he’s been a bastard since the flight, he can have some nark back at him. He glowers at my tone of voice.

“I need those memos resent to Walters in New York; the idiot’s lost them on the system.” He’s still glaring like that’s my fault.

Great!

I sigh heavily and pull out my tablet, but he kicks my foot under the table, making me jump.

react more from the fright than any actual pain,

and I bite my

What the actual hell?

for?”

I tell you to do something.” He snaps angrily and slumps

a whole new level

Fuck off!

hours have been, my once charming boss is now my asshole, irritating as shit, dick head of a boss who’s been riding my back about everything. He’s made me redo a million menial tasks that my assistant could have dealt with and he’s snarked at me incessantly. If anyone has a PMS issue it is him, not me. I have the urge to throw a tampon at

the love

the moods of the last two days have been completely

sorts of employment rules,” I hiss. Throwing a warning

sure rolling your eyes and scowling at the boss will

wasn’t a room of stuffed shirts five feet away through a glass door right now, I would have chucked my pen at

and mouth “Whatever you command!” I resist the urge to stick my fingers up at him. Once again, he’s

“Emma Anderson.”

… I need your help

too, has she? What the

“Go ahead.”

she has and tell her they’ve to be printed and filed. I go through her concerns about some other matters and sign off. I like Rosalie, she’s precious, although she lacks initiative and confidence. If Jake has been bitching at that little cloud of sweetness, then he really is in

through me, I normally do all of that so I

talk to

desk sharply. “Stay here and take any calls.

Jerk.

the board room and shut the door noisily. He’s in aggressive boss mode, he’s probably going to bark at all the suits and have this meeting finished pronto. I shake my head at his back and concentrate on not sticking my tongue out.

cell immediately vibrates, and I swipe it open. I flinch at the name which appears on screen and my

Marissa Hartley.

Jesus Christ!

expected. I glance over at him, through the glass door, trying to figure out if I should ignore it. I decide against it and then answer,

cell … Emma Anderson speaking.”

Emma?” she sounds shocked to find me on the other