Looking every bit the strong, sexual woman who says fuck you to the world.
I couldn’t love her more. And I take glance at Sloane. He’s thinking the same damn thing.
“After all,” she says as she walks up towards the podium. “Only I get to spank them and that’s during sex.”
Whatever we were trying to do, Natalie has just changed the rules.
This is going to be fun.
Nata
lie
The entire crowd stops talking or it looks like even thinking. They turn to me.
I swear, it's like a single organism or something.
I gulp.
“After all,” I say as I walk toward the podium. “Only I get to spank them and that’s during sex.”
Where the hell did that come from?
What am I even doing here?
Maybe this wasn't such a good idea?
I can't do this. Can I?
Wait, what am I talking about.
You're right. Of course I can do this.
I take a few deep breaths. They're still staring at me, but you know what?
Fuck them.
There. Channeling my inner Sloan Hardman while I'm walking up to the podium.
After all, I've started my own company. Not just a bakery or a coffee shop either.
No, nothing like that. I started my own sex toy company.
I made my own way in the world, doing what I loved. I said fuck you to the establishment. To the man. To everyone who told me I needed to get a job or get married.
My entire life is a testament to the fact that I don't need to do what the world expects me to do. Instead, I only need to do what makes me happy.
See, that's what the world doesn't seem to understand.
They think because there are some things that everyone is doing that it's the only path. And that anyone who doesn't follow that path is doing something wrong or must be some sort of deviant.
Yes, I worked in an office. On Wall Street. In the world of high finance. I did it after graduating from Stanford. I did everything that people said I should.
And I hated every minute of it.
That's why when you first met me, it wasn't at the offices of Carter Jeffries on Wall Street as a private equity banker.
It was right after I got the Penny Worlein Toys order. Remember? When I started to use the bullet that was synced to my Kindle?