The CEO Takes A Wife
"I presume you asked me in here for a reason, Dad?" Alex Valente said, his tone cool and collected as he sat in front of his father's desk in the opulent tenth-floor office overlooking Sydney Harbour.
There was a moment's pause. "Yes, there's a reason," Cesare Valente replied, leaning back in his leather chair.
Alex ignored the mixture of pride and regret in his father's eyes. They'd never been close, despite working together all these years. Cesare Valente had come to Australia as a child and was the founder of the House of Valente. Alex was its CEO. The two of them had taken the Australian perfume dynasty and turned it into a national success.
But it wasn't enough. It had never been enough— for either of them. There were more successes out there, more opportunities to seize, including their upcoming launch in the States of their newest and finest perfume yet—Valente's Woman. Alex knew his father admired that same drive to conquer in himself. It was part of the reason he'd been tasked with the USA launch.
"And that is…" Alex prompted, leaving the sentence hanging.
"I've come to a decision…" Cesare's pause was surely for effect. " ... read full excerpt from The CEO Takes a Wife ebook
