Frayed Bonds

Ambrose Vitale
If you told me a few years ago that I'd be the current CEO of Vitale Holdings at thirty two, I would've probably laughed in your face.
Yet somehow, here I am.
CEO: tick.Youngest Billionaire in Europe: tick.Most eligible bachelor four years in a row: tick.A board of investors threatening to out vote me because of my questionable reputation: double tick. Eleven ticks to be exact.
I have everything in the palm of my hand except the one thing I really want. The one thing I truly think I cannot live without.
Their confidence in me running this company.
I have to turn this company and my reputation around before it's too late. My father has worked too hard for this to happen. I've worked too hard for this to happen. I just need to keep my head down and not fall victim to my brother's usual antics and especially not to a certain pink wearing distraction that just returned home and happens to be my new assistant.

Valerie Farina
Returning home to Tevici was never part of my plans. I was supposed to move to Paris to study, find an amazing art curator job, get married and grow old with my beautiful children and loving husband all while enjoying the Parisian sunset.
Wrong. Well half right if you count a failed marriage.
Instead I'm back home to take care of my father as he prepares to undergo a double hip replacement. But when the stupid medical insurance falls through, I'm left rather desperate for work, and you know what they say. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
It's just a question of how far am I willing to go, to get the money I need.
The city seems to have remained mostly the same but, the people are not the way I left them at all.