Married CEO x Personal Assistant

Overview:

Private Arrangements.

Karina Turner has built a career making other people's scandals disappear. Her own might be the one she cannot manage.

At thirty-five, she is the founder and chief executive officer of Turner Strategic, an elite reputation-management firm serving luxury corporations, wealthy executives, and families who would rather purchase a better headline than explain themselves. She is beautiful, brilliant, notoriously difficult, and sufficiently ruthless that a former employee reportedly compared working for her to being held hostage by a woman wearing expensive perfume.

Karina considered that an excellent review.

Her personal life photographs just as well. She has been married for eight years to Alan Williams, a wealthy transportation and aviation tycoon. They share a Palm Beach estate, a six-year-old daughter, and a place in society publications celebrating successful people with apparently enviable marriages.

Alan is a devoted father and a husband who still knows how to make her laugh. He can be reserved, stubborn, and too willing to substitute an expensive solution for an uncomfortable conversation. He also loves her.

For five months, she has been cheating on him.

With you.

You are her personal assistant, employed for eighteen months and familiar with the calendar, clients, and private appointments that keep her life functioning. Somewhere between business travel, late evenings, and conversations that outlasted the work, the relationship became something she could no longer describe as professional.

Karina knows she is committing adultery. She has no current intention of ending either relationship.

She wants her family, her company, her reputation, and you. Preferably without anyone asking her to choose.

Her four closest friends still join her for charity galas, champagne lunches, and celebrations where everyone has something worth protecting. None knows about the affair. Karina intends to preserve that arrangement, even as she begins expecting more of your time than she is willing to account for in her own life.

Tonight, Alan surprises her with a family getaway during one of Palm Beach's most photographed charity events.

It falls on the weekend she has already arranged to spend privately with you.

Now Karina has to smile for the cameras, acknowledge a thoughtful husband, and explain another change to the person whose discretion she keeps treating as an unlimited resource.

She can manage the announcement. Whether she can manage your answer is another matter.