TAKING ADVANTAGE_EXCERPT: "IS THE GRASS REALLY GREENER?"

Today I'm sharing with you another unedited excerpt from "Is the Grass Really Greener?" Yesterday's guest blogger, Pavi is the feature of today's excerpt from my upcoming novel.

Pavi watched their grim faces around the table as they read the reports Carolyn had prepared for them. She knew they didn’t like the numbers, but that’s exactly what she had wanted. She wanted to get a rise out of them; it was the only way she could sway them to her perspective.
“Ms. Herrera, looking at these projections what is the probability of us turning this thing around at this late date in the project?” Yiro Hakinamo the Board Chair asked. The stern expression he wore on his face never changed. His thick, thatch of jet black hair stood on ends, and his bushy eyebrows matched. His eyes as shiny as black marbles, honed in on her assessing the probability of her bullshitting him. She wasn’t worried, not only did she have her game face on but he knew she was no bull shitter. Pavi was the real deal.
Bingo! That was the money question…the one she was banking on them asking.
“Well gentleman if you would please turn to look at the figures on the screen, you will see that there is a 92 percent chance of us turning this problem upside down on its head. We can still reach our goal and move forward with the Greenway project in Miami if we switch our focus and the investment dollars,” she replied as she left her seat and walked to the front of the room next to the screen projected on the wall.
She knew heads were turning to watch her svelte figure as she worked her little red mini that hugged her curves so viciously. With her 4” Sexy Red stiletto’s her legs went on for days, and the men couldn’t take their eyes off of them. She was the only woman in the room and one of few in management in a male dominated firm.

Then she went in for the kill. “You will find in the next packet of information sitting before you, that we can get a 90 percent ROI if the dollars invested in the Greenway project were reduced by 30%, and those dollars were reinvested into the Beltline project in Charlotte,” she explained.
There were audible gasps and whispering among the 18 board members present and the 12 senior management staff of Price & Curtis.
She continued to rattle on a few numbers as she stood at the head of the room. But she began to feel tired again, something that consumed her these days and she decided to return to her seat before anyone noticed.
Once seated she took off the red A-Line suit jacket that clung to her curves. They couldn’t see her legs anymore, but her deep V cut white blouse all but pushed her caramel colored breasts at them. Pavielle was not above any means to get what she wanted in life, and if that meant teasing the men of the board…hey all was fair in money and war. It was just another board game to her.
“Ms. Herrera can we go over these numbers and reconvene in an emergency board meeting in the next 48 hours?” Mr. Hirsch a member of senior management asked.
“Look gentlemen, if you are serious about this project and saving your asses and placing this company in the number one position to take advantage of the opportunity the Beltline offers, I would suggest you look at those numbers now and give me an answer. While we’re sitting here twiddling our thumbs, Carr, Nicholson & Chase already have recruits scouting the area to determine how profitable it will be for their firm to move into this project. I happen to know they’re ready to move on it as soon as tomorrow as long as the project turns out to be what they expect it is. And you know something Hirsch, it’s all that and more,” Pavi sternly stated.
“How do you know this information Ms. Herrera?” Mark Jacobi another board member asked.
“It’s my job to know this information…that’s what the hell you pay me for. So are we doing this or not gentlemen?” she asked with an unyielding look on her face.
There was another couple of minutes of paper shifting, whispering, and audible sighs before it was put to vote. And as she knew it would be, Pavi’s proposal was accepted unanimously.
Now that the hard work was done, she just needed to get home, get something to eat and get some sleep to do it all over again tomorrow.  For more excerpts from this book, please visit me @ www.cmichelleramsey.com.
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