Chapter Six
Ward told Gina that Alfred York, a former Democratic Vice-President and now the CEO of an innovative international telecom company, was a higher priority than the head of the German media company. Ward also ordered her to do her best to seduce York.
The company’s luxurious offices were in the office building attached to the majestic old Willard Hotel, a bastion of Washington society since Henry and Edwin Willard bought the original hostelry in 1850. The office building was lovingly constructed to match the hotel’s current structure, completed in 1904, a regally adorned example of the Second French Empire’s Beaux-Arts style arrayed in an extravagantly cupolaed roof and an entrance fronted by a row of massive three-story columns.
Before she’d ascended to her meeting, Gina indu
