The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Jason shrugged and grinned nonchalantly. He then followed Corinne into the office.

"I am working, though. It's part of my job to come here and talk to you about work. Hence, I am leading by example by being a hardworking employer."

Corinne walked to her desk. She could feel Jason moving closer to her. It was an annoying habit of his; he would deliberately try to get close to her so their bodies would touch while talking.

She turned and casually pulled out a chair. "Mister Jason, please have a seat. We should treat this as a business meeting since we're going to talk about work. I'm afraid that it'll be hard to draw a line between personal and work if you're too close to me."

Jason smiled and sat on the chair. "Thank you, Corinne."

Corinne walked to her desk and sat opposite him. "So, what do you want to discuss with me?" she asked while looking at him lightly.

out an area to build an art gallery. What do you think?" Corinne gave his idea some serious thought before

If you're free, maybe we can go over so I can show you the area. It'll also be easier for me to explain some of the ideas for how I want the art gallery to look like." Corinne looked at the time on

to do anyway, so I'll wait here for

was not going anywhere, Corinne said, "Well, if you insist. But I must warn you that it's going to be a long meeting. You can wait outside in the lounge area. Feel free to

each other so well? Can't I just

we're business partners, we're also each other's competitors. Do you really think it's appropriate for you, the president of another company, to wait alone in my office when we have so many overlapping projects? Not to mention, I have so many

should know I'm not going to snoop into your confidential documents." "It's fine if all the confidential documents are mine. You can snoop all you want then. But all the documents here belong to Holden Group, and

and stood up helplessly. "I feel so wronged! I swear I'm not here to steal your company's

saying is that it's best if we keep a clear boundary with each other. At least