His For The Night

HIS FOR THE NIGHT

A NOVELLA

HELEN COOPER

This book is a work of
fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or
actual events is entirely coincidental. Names, characters,
businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents are the
product of the author’s imagination or are used
fictitiously.

Copyright © 2013 by Helen
Cooper

Prologue

To: Holly Craven

From: Spencer
Giovanni

Date and Time: Friday,
9:05am

Re: First Day

Dear Ms. Craven,

It is now 9:05am, and you
are late. The workday starts at 9:00am. As my new executive
assistant, I expect you to be here 5 minutes early. I have a
meeting at 10:00am and do not have time to go over anything with
you today. So do not bother coming in. Please be at work on Monday
at 8:30am, or I will have to withdraw our offer of employment. I
know we haven’t met as yet but I do have to tell you that I am
already unimpressed at your character.

Sincerely,

Spencer Giovanni

P.S Obviously you will not
be paid for work today

Chapter 1

“
I’m coming to Vegas after
all.” Holly sighed into the phone. “I need to get
drunk.”

“
Are you okay?” Lacey asked
in concern. “Lewis was just saying that this wouldn’t be a fun
weekend without you. But we thought you guys couldn’t make
it.”

“
Well, Josh just dumped me
and I’m coming.”

“
Oh, Holly, are you okay?”
Lacey’s voice was anxious. “I thought you said he was going
propose?” She whispered.

“
I was wrong.” Holly
sighed. “It was horrible, Lacey. He called me boring, and he told
me that his life had never been so dull.”

“
He what?” Lacey shouted.
“Let me call him please. I want to tell him where he can shove
his….”

“
Lacey.” Holly’s voice was
exasperated. “Not now. I just can’t believe that he dumped
me.”

“
I mean, if I’m honest,
I’ve never liked him.” Lacey spoke softly as if she feared
upsetting Holly even more. “It’s time to move on.”

“
What a waste of a year.”
Holly sighed. “And now my new boss is mad at me as
well.”

“
What? Why?”

“
I was late for work, and
he emailed me and told me not to bother coming in
today.”

“
Oh no, he
didn’t?”

“
Oh yes he did. He sounds
like a jerk as well. This week cannot get any worse. My boyfriend
dumped me, and my boss hates me, already. Yay.” Holly jumped up as
she talked. “I’m packing my bag, and I’m going to drive down
now.”

“
Awesome. Tonight we can
party and get drunk like we did in college.”

“
I think I’m too old to get
as drunk as I did in college.” Holly laughed.

“
Holly, we’re only 25. That
is not too old.”

“
Well, I sure feel
old.”

“
You’re just depressed.
Forget Josh, he was a loser. I figure I can say that now, right?”
Lacey paused hesitating. “And your new boss travels a lot, right?
So it doesn’t matter if he’s a jerk. You’ll barely ever see
him.”

“
I know, but this wasn’t
really a great way to start a working relationship. I’ve never even
met him. He’s going to think his human resources department made a
mistake.”

“
Girl, you had like 3
interviews with all the exec’s at that place, right? If he wanted
to make the decision, he should have interviewed you
himself.”

“
He was in London, working
on some merger.” Holly laughed. “A merger that brought in an extra
billion dollars in revenue. I don’t think interviewing me was a
priority.”

“
A billion dollars--wow.”
Lacey exclaimed. “Maybe see if he wants to come to Vegas as well?”
She laughed. “Seriously though, Holly, you’re the best at what you
do, everyone knows that. Have fun this weekend, and then show up on
Monday, and be like wazzup.”

“
Lacey, I don’t even know
what he looks like. And from what I can tell, he’s not the sort of
guy that would be hanging out in Vegas.” Holly laughed, shaking her
head. “I am 100% certain that if I showed up at work on Monday and
said “Wazzup” to my boss, the CEO of Giovanni Enterprises, I would
be fired on the spot.”

“
He’ll take one look at you
and fall in love. He won’t even hear what you said.” She
laughed.

“
I’d rather not take that
risk and keep my job.” Holly gasped as she looked at the time. “But
hey, I’ve got to pack and get on the road before the traffic gets
crazy.”

“
Oh, you’re driving? I wish
you would have just come up with us.”

“
Well, I thought I was
going to be working today and this weekend…” Holly sighed
again.

“
Cheer up, Hols, it’ll be
okay.” Lacey tried to cheer her best friend up. “I’ll text you our
hotel information in a few.”

“
Okay, I’ll talk to you
later. Bye.” Holly hung up her phone and grabbed her bag. As she
did, a plastic bag from Victoria’s Secret fell to the floor, and
she sighed. She had bought some sexy underwear and lingerie for
Josh in an attempt to spice up their lack-luster sex life, but she
had never gotten the chance to wear it. She threw it onto her bed
in disgust, not wanting the reminder that her love live was now
non-existent. She was still in a state of shock at the fact that
Josh had dumped her and called her boring. She had thought she was
doing him a favor by dating him. She had been in so many bad
relationships with guys that sent her panties swinging that she had
felt that it was time to date a ‘safe’ guy. He had bored her and
talked about mundane subjects like golf and bird species, but she
had sucked it up because she wanted to get married and have a
family, and he had seemed like a sure bet. She was still
flabbergasted that he had dumped her because he had thought her too
boring. She shook her head at the irony of the situation. She was
the girl that danced on bar tops in college and had one-night
stands on Spring Break. The girl that dyed her brown hair red so
that she could show up at her ex-boyfriend’s bachelor party and
pretend to be a stripper. She had known he was scum, but when he
actually accepted her offer for sex and pulled his pants down, she
had run out of the room laughing. She had been glad at that moment
that he had ended the relationship. She had never known he was that
sleazy.

After that relationship,
Holly had decided to tame her wild ways and settle for a nice guy.
And when Josh had come along, with his sweet blue eyes and light
brown hair, he hadn’t set her heart on fire, but he had seemed safe
and dependable. The sex had been lack luster, and he had been
fairly dull, but he had also wanted a family pretty soon, and she
figured he would make a good father.

“
Well, fuck him.” Holly
shook her long brown hair and grabbed the plastic bag off of the
bed. “I’m going to wear this tonight for myself, and I’m going to
feel sexy, even if nobody gets to see it.” She looked in the mirror
and stared at her reflection. He long brown hair hung in waves
around her shoulders, and her light brown eyes were afire with
anger. All-in-all, she was pleased with what she saw. She was never
going to be a super model, but she had what it took to turn an eye
or two.

She grinned to herself and
paused as she thought about dolling herself up for the night. “I’m
boring?” She growled angrily and grabbed her phone and dialed
Josh’s number. He sent her straight to voicemail, and she ranted
into the phone. “Josh, this is Holly, your boring ex-girlfriend. I
wanted to ask you something: if I’m boring, what are you? Did you
win the most boring man in the world prize or something? Do you
think anyone gives a shit what kind of worms a bird is looking for?
Did you really think my idea of a fun vacation would be to go gator
watching with you in the Everglades? I just wanted to let you know
that you, Josh Pratt, you are the most boring man I have ever met.”
She closed the phone quickly and laughed to herself. She was still
feeling a little down due to her boss’ email, but she knew she was
going to get over Josh pretty easily.

“
Maybe now’s not the time
for a family.” She mumbled to herself as she flung a short, sexy
dress into her bag. “I’m going on 25. I’ve got time.” She sat back
on her bed and bit her lip. She knew that she was still young, but
it had always been her dream to have a lot of kids, 5-7 in fact.
She knew that if she wanted a large family like that, she needed to
start pretty soon. She sighed and jumped back up again. This wasn’t
the time to think about her ovaries and timeline. That could wait
for next week. This weekend she was going to treat herself to a
vacation and deal with all the bullshit when she got back. “I’m
going to party, party, party.” She danced around as she grabbed a
few more items and her car keys. “Vegas, here I come.”

***

Holly was jamming away to
Coldplay in her car when she heard her phone beep. Thinking it was
Lacey with the hotel information, she pulled over to the side of
the highway so she could read the text message and put the hotel
information into her GPS. Her breath caught as she saw that what
she had received was not a text message but another email from her
new boss Spencer Giovanni.

To: Holly Craven

From: Spencer
Giovanni

Date and Time:
11:55am

Re: Where are
you?

Ms. Craven,

Where are you? I cannot
believe that you did not have the initiative to come to the office
after my previous email. You do know, I presume, that you are
supposed to accompany me to every meeting I go to in Los Angeles.
Do not bother coming to the office now. I will see you on Monday,
and I will be expecting you at 8:00am.

Spencer Giovanni

Holly gasped at the email,
and she felt her face going red with anger. “Oh, hell no.” She
shouted and hit reply on the phone. She had just about had enough
with everyone, and she wasn’t going to just take this crap. She
didn’t care if she got fired or not. She typed furiously on her
phone and then hit send before she chickened out and changed her
mind.

To: Spencer
Giovanni

From: Holly
Craven

Date and Time:
11:58am

Re: Where are
you?

Mr. Giovanni aka my new
boss,

I am not in the office
right now because I am following the order you gave me in your
email this morning. You say I should have taken initiative and
still showed up, but why do I have a feeling that you would have
considered that impertinent? I was late this morning because I was
stopping to pick up a coffee for you. I wanted to make a good
impression as this was going to be our first meeting. I will
remember to not bother with niceties from now on. I hope you have a
great weekend. I know I will. But I’ll be sure to make it to the
office at 07:30 am so that you are able to get us much work out of
me as possible.

Yours Sincerely.

Holly Craven

Your new
assistant

Take
that
, Holly thought to herself, though she
was slightly worried that she may have to look for a job at Walmart
once he received the email. She was surprised to hear another beep
on her phone just as she went to start her car again. She held her
breath as she opened the new email.

To: Holly Craven

From: Spencer
Giovanni

Date and Time:
11:59am

Re: Where are
you?

Make it 07:00am.

Spencer Giovanni

Asshole
. She thought to herself. Though she was happy that he hadn’t
said don’t bother coming in at all. She started her ignition and
got back on the highway. She made good time because she had avoided
the after-work weekend trek to Vegas. She hoped that the hours
would go by quickly because she wanted to get drunk and forget all
about the impending stress she foresaw coming at work. She turned
up the volume as she started driving again and changed her playlist
to Lil Wayne tracks. She needed to get pumped up, and Coldplay
wasn’t going to get her ready for a wild weekend. Because Holly had
already decided that this was going to be a weekend to break all
records. “I’ll show you boring, Josh.” She screamed out the window
and bobbed her head to the R&B music that filled up her
car.