The Potential (1)

"If this fails, I'm blaming you, Henri." My hands smoothed the front of my white suit for the seventeenth time in twelve minutes to hide how nauseous I felt. This was make or break. If this failed, I failed. I'd be fucked. "Oh my god, do you think I should have put out flavoured sparkling water instead of the plain one? Do we even have flavoured sparkling water? Shit and they'll be here any minute."

I had been so busy welcoming my new employees and negotiating contracts with them that I completely forgot to look after the last details.

"There is a crate of ice cold assorted flavoured waters on the way, they will be here in less than ten minutes." Dominico let me know from his place at the desk beside mine. Thank goodness I kept him as my assistant, Henri couldn't do everything for me when he was at home and I was here.