The Record Label

Meeting her

Carina Deluca has always given her all to her career, not that she was married to her job per say but she was very dedicated. Working her way to the top singlehandedly, she has been Head of Artists and Repertoire at one of LA's top record labels for three years.

Carina's alarm roared through her bedroom at just 6am, signalling it was time for her to get ready to go to work. Trying her very best not to give into the temptation of going back to sleep, she crawled out of her queen-sized bed and walked into her on-suite. She was very successful in her career, and of course that came with the bonus of quite a large sum of money in her bank account. The house she lived in was fairly big, four bedrooms, five bathrooms, swimming pool and hot tub out back, cinema room, large open plan kitchen which she utilised when possible to make her Italian family recipes. There was nothing Carina loved more than coming home to her house after a long day at work and opening a bottle of red wine. The only down-side with that was she had no one to come home to, which is something she longed to have. She was a very romantic person; some would say too romantic in the sense that she would fall in love far too quickly and ultimately get her heart broken into a million and one pieces.

After a quick shower she got dressed into a fitted black suit, black heels and a white flowy blouse. She drove her Porsche to work, stopping on the way for a well needed coffee and finally arrived in her office 30 minutes later. Today Carina was feeling ever so slightly apprehensive as a new potential artist is scheduled for a meeting at 2pm. Even though she has done more than enough to prove to the company she is right for the job, Carina has the tendency to want to impress like she is interviewing for the job all over again.

The morning passed very quickly, too quickly for the Head of A&R rather, and before she knew it, it was 1:55pm. Carina got herself ready for the meeting in her office. Having worked with artists before, she knew they had a tendency to not be very punctual, sort of worked off their own schedule and expected everyone else to follow them. However, to Carina's complete and utter surprise, at 2pm exactly she got a message to say the interviewee was ready downstairs.

She quickly straightened out her suit and tidied the small number of pens and sticky notes on her desk. Hearing footsteps outside her office door she looked up and greeted the person entering the room with the warmest of smiles, which then turned into a gaze. A gaze of complete awe, attraction and complete unprofessionalism. "Hello, it's so... nice to erm...finally put a face to the name in person...Maya" Carina managed to get out, even though it was with great difficulty. "I could say the same about you, Mrs Deluca". "Actually uhm... Miss Deluca it is, not married no no not me, single yes not with anyone really not at all... sorry too much information, must have had too many coffees this morning". "I'm glad you told me, shocked none of the less, but good to know" Maya smirked at her potential new boss who was by now very red and flushed.

AN

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