Chapter 35

035 Boss To Be Scarlett’s POV +25 BONUS When I finished my pitch, I felt embarrassed and shocked – I talked for 2 hours straight?! Standing in the elevator, I can’t help but to cover my face thinking about what just happened.

He smiled at me with an encouraging look, nodded along, and even asked some simple questions, so I totally lost track of time.

To think that I just took up the whole morning of a billionaire whose business was far more important than my movie....

I didn’t know how to face Adrian Dunn at that moment, and when I looked up, he was smirking like a mischievous fox, seeing through my thoughts again.

“Ughhh, I should probably...” I put away my iPad, pointing at the door, “Thank you very much for hearing me out!”

The fox let out a laugh.

“You don’t even have time for my decision?” Adrian Dunn curved his lips, his deep, shimmering eyes taunting behind his thin rimless glasses, “Not that I’d hate it if you just came here for a passionate chat...”

“...” I totally forgot. Wasn’t my pitch the whole point of the meeting?

But he didn’t give me a hard time after that. Even right now standing in the elevator with his offer, it still feel surreal to me.

I got it? I just got my script bought...by one of the largest media tycoons?!!!

My day would have been perfect if the elevator door didn’t open to the one person I didn’t expect to see at the Dunn Corp-

“If you are done smiling at yourself, can you stop wasting everyone’s time?”

Ava Fuller.

Followed by a whole team of guards and her manager, Ava is standing by the elevator door with an impatient, condescending look.

“What are you doing here?” I blurt out, more shocked than annoyed.

Ava is signed by Sebastian, nemesis of the Dunn Corp. And it doesn’t look like she’s here for some personal reason, given the team following her. The team Sebastian had hired for her. “Co–productions between media companies is not forbidden. If you are looking to enter the business, then you might want to do your homework better,” Ava sneers at me coldly, +25 BONUS stepping into the elevator and pressing close to me, forcing me to step out-

I’m not allowed to have physical contact with “the princess“. Apparently I pose some threat to her life, somehow.

Normally Ava doesn’t talk to me much, but she is more aggressive today, holding the elevator door open with a hand, and keeping on throwing shit at me:

“Can you believe an ugly duckling like this is trying to sleep her way into the movie business?” Ava tosses her hair cockily, laughing with her manager.

Hesitating for a second, I decide to pretend I didn’t hear her comment. Not like I had come here for an acting job like she clearly assumed anyway. Seeing she’s not leaving anytime soon, the people around scatters for the other elevators. I turn to leave, too, only to hear Adrian’s voice rising behind me-

“I’d praise God if that’s what Miss Scarlett was here for, and it’s a pity that her eyes are on something else.”

What’s he doing here? He seemed to have loads of work waiting when I left his office not ten minutes ago.

Ava’s eyebrows instantly become vertical at her words, but she knows better than to fire at the head of Dunn Corp. She finally lets go, and the elevator door shuts her glare inside.

“Thanks,” I turn to Adrian Dunn, nodding at the elevator, “for that. I didn’t know the Dunn Corp is offering her projects-”

“I didn’t know either,” Adrian answers fast with a light frown, as if annoyed to be mentioned together with Ava, “must be a mistake from one of my new hires.”

He gives me a slight, apology bow.

Okay...? I did not see that coming. I thought Ava was THE girl of every man’s dreams in their circle.

I step away to give way for him, but he stops by my side and then holds out a hand as if asking for a dance: “Since you are still here... Would you like to have lunch with me?”

I hesitate. Not that I feel uncomfortable having lunch with him, just don’t want to get too close to their circle- the rich, powerful, unreasonable, scheming circle.

I’m known as a Fuller, but I know I don’t have wealth or rich parents to support me if I mess 1. up.

But nor do I want to start my cooperation with the visibly dangerous and sophisticated fox on the wrong foot. I will be working for him for the next few months. Not to mention he just offered me a dream deal that I couldn’t get anywhere else.

I wish Adrian would take a hint at my hesitation, but he just waits patiently, with his blindingly 035 Boss To Be bright smile and his polite hand held out.

“She doesn’t want to. Are you too blind to see that?”

I didn’t get to say anything before Sebastian’s voice cut in from nowhere, his words so aggressive that the smoke alarm should go off.

Did my almost-ex–husband just yell at my new boss???

What a day!