#The hate you give chapter 16 summary free#

And despite all the doom and gloom and Mayan prophesies and Hollywood disaster movies, the end of the world is not yet quite at hand. Part of me is tempted just to swipe my badge and keep walking without even turning round, but that might look as if I was running away, and the day I run away from Ian St John will be a pretty chilly one in hell. Ok, now it's official: I'm not going to make it. I don't even need to turn around to know who it belongs to. My hand hangs suspended in the air, gripping the badge I was about to pass over the scanner. Are we on You've Been Framed ?вЂќ asks a deep, perfidious voice behind me. Ok, here I am ГўВЂВ“ only two hours behind schedule! I wasn't particularly attached to that lip gloss that's rolling away anyway. I search desperately through the pile of stuff until I find what I'm after, then hurriedly shove all the rest back into the bag ГўВЂВ“ well, almost all the rest, but it doesn't matter. I'm gasping for breath from panic and the effort of running ГўВЂВ“ I need to find that damn badge quickly, otherwise I'll be for the high jump. When I get to the turnstiles in the atrium, I unceremoniously dump the contents of my bag out onto the floor. Me, the perfect employee, head of the bank's best tax consultancy team ГўВЂВ“ unforgivably late on the day of a crucial presentation. I'm running like crazy along a street in central London because, for the first time in my almost nine year career, I'm atrociously late. Soon, it becomes more and more difficult to tell the difference between fiction and realityГўВЂВ¦ ContentsДЄnd it's then that I make the mistake of checking my watch.

#The hate you give chapter 16 summary free#

When they are thrown together to work on the same project, Ian makes Jenny an offer she can't refuse: to have free reign of their rich client if she pretends to be his girlfriend. Ian is a handsome, wealthy and sought-after bachelor Jennifer is a feisty, independent lawyer. They are leaders of two different teams in the same London bank, and are constantly engaged in a running battle to be number one. Jennifer and Ian have known each other for seven years.