After months of going back and forth, I gave in tohim.
Relationships were a complication I couldn’t afford, especially not in the beginning of my career. My mind knew it, but my body led me down the path of a sinful office romance that ended as spectacularly as a test rocket exploding before reaching thestratosphere.
Eventually, I came to my senses, feeling boxed in after he became possessive, which had me backpedaling and looking for a way out. After I was able to break off our relationship, I asked if we could be friends, but Trent refused to believe that we were over. He did everything in his power to get me back, and every time I told him no, he took it to meanyes.
I refused his every advance, but he bided his time and thought I’d come to my senses—but I neverdid.
The one thing I know about myself is that once my mind is made up, I never goback.
Trent was a hard lesson to learn—never mix business with pleasure. Interoffice romances spell disaster and should be avoided at all costs. I couldn’t just walk away from him entirely. We worked together. And that there is therub.
When I became CEO of Interstellar, he became the head of research and development, not because of me, but because of our work on the project that had pushed us together. We had a common goal—a new engine technology that would revolutionize the industry, and we were soclose.
I knew that, as a company, we needed him, even if I didn’t want a damn thing to do withhim.
He had a brilliant mind, and Interstellar needed him just as much as they needed me. We were trapped together in a symbiotic relationship, even though it was toxic. He needed me to back his projects and give him free rein, while I needed him to create something so magnificent it would make Interstellar the leader in the aerospace industry and allow me to leave my mark on the universe. Like it or not, our lives wereintertwined.
He pulled off the impossible, creating something that would solidify Interstellar’s dominance over the entireindustry.
Maybe he wasn’t my biggest mistake afterall.
