The Art of the Hustle 2 (Complete)

Chapter Five

It was an ordinary day at the office and Trevor couldn't wait until lunch. Walking around the office, he was live streaming to his millions of followers.

"Here is our lounge area," he said. "Say hello everyone."

A number of staff sat in large bean bag chairs, working away on their laptops. They turned and waved to the young CEO.

He continued to walk and talk to his fans. When he got to Ashley's office, he introduced her. She didn't like being in the public eye and preferred to be low key; however, dating a social media savvy CEO was part of the gig. Her only request was to not record anything at home, and not post anything embarrassing of her.

"Say hi, Ashley," Trevor said, slowly walking into her office so that his phone didn't shake too much. On the screen were thousands of people tuning in live, liking and commenting in real-time.

"As you know, this is my lovely wife, Ashley, working hard as usual. Ashley is the Director of Finance here at Unity. Among other things, she manages the budgets for all our internal business decisions. Isn't that right, Ashley?"

Ashley looked shyly at the camera and gave an awkward smile.

"Okay, she's busy. We'll leave her alone."

Trevor stepped out of her office and turned the camera on himself. "Ashley and I are about to head out to lunch now. Thanks for watching and commenting. I appreciate you all. Until next time..."

The screen went black as the live feed ended. Trevor put his phone away and sat on a small sofa that Ashley had in her office.

"You almost ready? I'm starving," he asked.

"Actually, I'm really swamped. Can you give me like ten more minutes?"

"Sure. I'll be in my office. Just come get me when you're ready."

Trevor walked back to his desk and logged into his computer. After checking some of his social media accounts, he began doing some online shopping. A few minutes later, Tami walked in, "Trevor, I have Robert Whitman on line one for you."

Almost as if he was oblivious to what she said, Trevor called her over. "Hey, Tami. Can I get your opinion on something?"

"Sure," Tami said, walking over.

"Ashley's birthday is coming up and I'm unsure what to get her."

"Jewellery is always good," she suggested. "I know a lot of woman like that."

"She has so much jewellery though."

"A woman can never have enough jewellery."

"Ashley isn't really that materialistic, which actually makes it hard to buy her something. Plus, she has everything."

"First world problems, huh?"

"Tell me about it, all this money and I don't know what to buy."

"What about a handbag?"

"She has tons of those?"

"Car?"

"Nah."

"Okay, if she's not materialistic, just think of something money can't buy, and then get her that?"

"Like what?"

"Quality time."

"Can you be more specific?" Trevor asked.

"I don't know, has she ever mentioned a particular country she wanted to travel to? Just bring her there."

"She did talk about us spending some time together before the... never mind."