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    Emily's Dilemma
    Emily's Dilemma
    Emily's Dilemma
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    Emily's Dilemma

    By Gabriella Como

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    Emily Chastain's determination to climb out of poverty and help her chronically sick mother means working through her college career by selling her most precious asset—her beautiful body. After she finishes her PhD, she leaves her past behind and embarks on a professional career as a scientist. Emily, with her handsome and brilliant boss, Robert Noble, are working on a drug that shows great promise in curing the condition that Emily's mother suffers from. Both attend a conference where they present the findings of the drug's clinical trials. A big pharmaceutical company wants to buy the wonder drug, but their intention is to never bring it to market, depriving Emily's mother of a cure. The executive who wants to buy the drug was also Emily's very first client during her college working years and uses sexual blackmail to get what he wants. Emily may need to sacrifice one more time, but if she does, she's going to make sure she comes out on top.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGabriella Como
    Release dateMay 20, 2014
    ISBN9781609827939
    Emily's Dilemma
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    Gabriella Como

    Gabriella Como is a writer of suburban erotica, delving into the minds and souls of real people, with short stories based on real life events. Her work is geared toward the suburban, educated woman who needs an escape and seeks reality-based stories that can transport her away from her world into one that's not that far away. Gabriella spent most of her career in advertising agencies, writing and coming up with big ideas for clients. She has turned that creative fire into her passion: documenting the secret lives of suburban women. Each short story she has written is based on a real-life encounter. Gabriella sources her material through interviews and deep, quiet conversations. Her ability to get women to talk is also a talent few have, and she leverages this as fuel for her writing. Gabriella lives in Chicago with her real estate mogul husband, who does not know she writes erotica.

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      Emily's Dilemma - Gabriella Como

      Emily's Dilemma

      by Gabriella Como

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2014 Gabriella Como

      Chapter 1

      Emily Chastain gave instructions to her husband but he wasn't listening, par for the course for him. She told him where the kids' lunches were. She told him to check the calendar for their sports events. She told him where the checks were to pay for their school trips lay. He offered up yeah...yeah...yep. He's a self-centered, vain ass, she thought. He just cares about himself and his workout routine. Thank God the kids are smarter than their dad. They'll know where everything is.

      Boarding the plane, Emily greeted the polite and helpful flight attendants and carefully made her way down the narrow aisle to her seat, 3C. Once there, she put her carry-on away in the above compartment, her but kept her iPad and earbuds. She sat and made herself comfortable. It was no small pleasure to sit down after all the walking she had to do to get through the airport to her gate. Getting herself situated, the tall, slender, handsome man with a salt-and-pepper goatee motioned to her with a bit of a smile that he had the seat next to her. Excuse me, he said. Thank you.

      Hi, Robert. You just made it just in time, again, Emily told her CEO. You are making sprinting in airports a habit.

      It's good exercise and I don't get enough of it, he replied, chuckling. He was breathing heavily. I should get in the kind of shape you are. But I can't seem to make the time.

      Robert Noble was the CEO of the startup pharmaceutical company named NobleCor. They specialized in heart conditions, particularly electrical pulses that drove the heart. Their most promising drug, X-3580, could make severe arrhythmia a thing of the past. Emily was his lead biochemist. Robert recruited her a couple years back from a dry, dreary career at a nearby giant company who had her work on commercialized compounds that they sold to pharmaceutical companies. Robert knew she was underutilized there, and offered a vision of what he intended to accomplish and how they were going to do it. She bought into his vision, because it meant working on a cure for something that could enhance the quality of life, if not extend it. That meant something to her, especially since her poor mother suffered from the severe arrhythmia the new drug in development would cure. She found purpose again. It reminded of a time in her past when she found such a purpose, pushing her to make a tough decision. The sacrifices she made back then were tough. That was long ago, and behind her. She didn't think about them anymore. She didn't want to remember those times at all.

      Casually looking over, she noticed Robert's long, lean legs stretched out with his feet hidden under the seat in front of him, the grace of his hands as they worked on his laptop. His wedding ring was simple and inexpensive. Robert was in his early fifties, she guessed, by the look of his hands and the shape his legs seemed to be in. He never told her his exact age. His look was one of confidence and ease in just about any situation he was in.

      Emily thought to herself that the idea of getting out of the office and away from her husband and kids was not such a bad idea. Her husband was capable of managing home life while she was away on business, although she usually did the lion's share of the housework. She relaxed, breathed in, and felt a slow release of tension leave her body. The family will be fine. I can enjoy this conference, even if this conference is full of freeze-dried pharma people, it can be enjoyed. She repeated in her head, over and over, almost trying to convince herself of this.

      He noticed her lean, well-muscled legs. He could tell the inner musculature that gave rise and shape to the proper parts of her. Her hands were pure, light, with a soft patina that suggested expensive skin lotion. He was balanced enough to turn his sexual impulses off, something younger men cannot possibly do. He knew getting hot and bothered by someone's legs is an energy suck and a waste of time. He liked that about himself. There's a time to turn it on; there's also time to turn it off and concentrate on the things at hand. Now he had a choice in the matter. He had that power; finally, it kept him in balance when he needed it. It didn't help that Robert's wife had intimacy issues. He respected and admired his wife, but it wasn't the perfect give-and-take marriage. Robert's wife had issues stemming from bad childhood experiences. She never sought treatment for them. Instead, she would insist they wouldn't define her. In the end, they certainly did. Robert's wife lacked sex drive. She hoped his sex drive would decrease over time to match up with hers. Then, both would be on the same page and she wouldn't worry. Robert compensated by diving into his work. His drive was always high.

      Emily and Robert both did their own thing, accepting hot towels and drinks from the flight attendants, and enjoying the comforts of first class flying. The movie came on, but they ignored it. The cabernet made her feel even more relaxed as she slipped off her shoes. He could smell her perfume. His vodka and tonic relaxed him as the battery charge in his phone quietly dissipated. He opened up his laptop to work on his presentation.

      ****

      Arriving at the hotel, Emily was exhausted but she knew work had to be done. She took the clothes out of her suitcase and hung up her suits. Her lacy underwear and running gear went into the dresser of her hotel room. Shoes lined up smartly inside the closet. Cosmetics and lotions went into the bathroom where she neatly arranged those things. Now that that was done, she needed to shower, then onto the meet-and-greet reception down in one of the smaller ballrooms. I'm glad the actual conference is in

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