Scandalizing the CEO by Katherine Garbera Page A

happened.”
    Geoff took a long swallow of his drink. “I don’t know what to do. I think that having just Tiffany’s story will be a bit odd. Will they still do the interview with us?”
    Steven had no idea. He suspected that Ainsley would. She wanted to talk to them. “Probably. She wants to talk to Malcolm, too.”
    “I wish her success with that, but he wasn’t much for agreeing to things when he was healthy. I can’t see him doing it now.”
    Steven would have concurred, except he’d seen Ainsley in action and he was willing to bet that if she got in to see Malcolm, she’d find a way to convince him to do it. She’d find an angle that he wouldn’t be able to say no to.
    “I’m going to try to convince my mum to do the interview. I want to hear her side of the entire affair,” Steven said.
    Geoff shrugged. “My mum will be harder to convince, but I’ll bet if she hears that Tiffany and Lynn are doing itshe’ll agree as well. Of course, she’ll have to coordinate with the royal family’s PR department.”
    “I hope so. Ainsley is really hot to do this interview and I’ve been working the business angle. I know she wants to talk about the past, but I want each of us to talk about the new things happening in each business unit.”
    “Henry and I are collaborating by painting the album covers of his new artists on the side of several of our planes.”
    “I love that idea,” Steven said. “I think we’ll produce some T-shirts picturing the album covers to sell in the store. And maybe we can run a promo the first week the CD comes out to bundle the shirts with the CD.”
    “Yes, that’ll work. I’m sure Henry will agree to it,” Geoff said.
    They talked more about the business and it wasn’t lost on Steven that the father he’d never known had given him brothers that he had a lot in common with. As a man who’d always been on his own, it was unnerving to realize that he finally had a family.
    More than his mum and Aunt Lucy anyway. He wasn’t sure he liked it. But he did know that Henry and Geoff were men he’d have hired to work for him. They were driven and innovative and together the three of them were going to take the Everest Group to heights that Malcolm had only dreamed of.
     
    Ainsley’s office overlooked the Basilica at St. Peter’s Cathedral. She stood at the window as dusk fell over the city and thought about the coming evening. New York had been exhausting and she’d spent too much time in the offices there. She was glad to be back home.
    She wasn’t sure when it had happened, but at some pointin the last three years London had become home. She’d gotten used to the sights and sounds of this city and made it her own.
    Her assistant, Cathy, stood in the doorway when Ainsley turned around. “I thought you’d left.”
    “Not yet. I had something that I wanted to talk to you about. Geoff Devonshire wants to meet with you before he will agree to be a part of the interviews.”
    Ainsley thought that Steven had already gotten the approval of his half brothers so this was news to her. “Fine. When is he available?”
    “Um…he’s actually in the reception area. He stopped by and wouldn’t take no for an answer.”
    Cathy guarded her office like a shark, so to hear that Geoff had somehow gotten her to put him in the reception area surprised her.
    “He’s charming?”
    “And so very handsome,” she said. “Too handsome. But I also knew you wanted this locked up so I figured I’d let him stay.”
    “Good thinking. Hiring you was a very smart decision,” Ainsley said.
    “As I remind you daily,” Cathy said, turning toward the door. “I’ll go get him. Do you want me to interrupt after ten minutes?”
    Ainsley rarely had time in her schedule to give anyone more than ten minutes, and from the beginning she and Cathy had an agreement that the assistant would come in and stop the meeting if it ran long.
    She had dinner reservations with Steven tonight. Would there be time