Chapter 114

Christian’s POV

I stared at the computer screen as I received confirmation of my flight.

I took a deep breath and let it out slowly, wondering how I was going to break the news to Gretchen. I didn't want to leave so soon, but George had scheduled the annual New Year's press conference so that we could beat out some of our competitors who would be holding theirs a few days later. The idea was, if we could get into people's heads first in the new year, then we could drum up some additional business.

I understood all of that, from a business perspective. But it meant that if I was to be part of the press conference, and part of the future of the business, I supposed, then I needed to be back in New York beginning on January 2nd at the latest.

There was a knock on the door, and I grimaced, knowing that it was Gretchen, coming to take me down to the luau. I wished that we could just have one last, special night together without this hanging over our heads, but I k