Bring Holly Home
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Kate spent most of her days explaining to clients that she knew their market better than the competition. The difficulty was, this was Yannis. The phrase bee in his bonnet might have been created specifically with him in mind. Once he had an idea, nothing could make him let it go.
“Georgina has more information on this,” Yannis explained. He gestured to the screen. “You understand all of this better than I do, anyway. But the thing to take away here is that this is exciting! We are going to build sports cars, and I want everyone to know about them. We can work together and make this the best campaign ever. Between us, I’m positive that we can make The Bolt something that everyone is talking about.”
“The Bolt?”
“I’m thinking of calling it The Bolt.” Yannis closed the MacBook and placed his fingers on top of it, protecting the secrets within. He leaned close to Kate. “I am still working out all of the details, but I can feel this is going to be a huge success.” He smiled at her, willing her to join him in his excitement.
While his passion for the project radiated from him, Kate felt utterly unable to join in. She didn’t want to work with Mastery. The whole point of running her own agency was that she didn’t have to work with anyone.
“Yannis,” Kate said carefully, “while working with Mastery would be wonderful, I’m not sure how we can work out the logistics. They are based in New York. You and I are based in London. Trying to split the workload, coordinate the teams, that would be very difficult.”
“We’re a modern world,” Yannis told her. “We have video conferencing, Internet, and airplanes.” He stood up and started to pack his belongings into his laptop bag. “I need the best, Kate. That’s you in Europe. But I need the American market. Do you know how many millionaires are in America?”
“Not off the top of my head,” Kate admitted.
“Me neither, but it’s a huge country, so there must be a lot. Picture it, my Bolt driving down Sunset Boulevard, maybe driven by a movie star or a pop singer. Who knows?”
Kate knew when his mind was made up. In his head, he was already winning awards and being proclaimed the genius behind the sports car of the decade. Yannis had often explained that his success was borne entirely from his sheer willpower to make success happen. He was dogged in his approach, unwavering in his beliefs. If he wanted Kate and Georgina to work together, that is exactly what he would have.
Any further argument from Kate would just make her sound awkward. As much as she hated the idea, her best course of action now was to play along.
Georgina wasn’t a fool, she didn’t get to where she was by not spotting an opportunity. There was no way she’d just stumbled upon Yannis. She’d sought him out, presumably armed with enough statistical information on the car industry to put Jay Leno to shame.
It was clear to Kate that Georgina was after the Atrom Engineering account. Now it was up to Kate to do everything she could to hang onto it.
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