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“And appoint Luther in your place, right?” she prompted.
“Yes,” he agreed through clenched teeth.
“Excellent.”
Then she turned to Thadeus. “Two down, one to go.”
“You have nothing on me,” he scoffed. “I’m not stepping down as CEO.”
Kay, who’d been watching everything unfolding around her like she was in the middle of a tennis match, said, “You don’t have to step down. The rest of the board can vote you out.”
Knox ticked off four votes on his fingers. “And what do you know? Looks like we have the votes to do just that.”
Thadeus was shaking with the force of his fury. “I’ll sue. You can’t do this to me. I won’t let you.”
Tenley shrugged. “You could try to sue. But then I’d have to turn over the proof I uncovered that you were the one who ordered Waylin to frame Knox. I’m guessing the authorities would frown upon that. And even though you wouldn’t get as much prison time as Waylin, I would assume that any prison time would be bad for someone like you.”
Again, he didn’t need to know the evidence she had would never stand up in court. She was an excellent bluffer.
Knox nodded. “It’s true. Pompous fuckwits get beat down on the daily.”
Tenley added, “Oh, and because I’m a spiteful bitch, you and your trophy wife—who, by the way, has been fucking Waylin behind your back for ages—are going to get the fuck out of Knox’s house and never darken his doorstep again. Today.”
His eyes shot to Waylin. “You’re fucking Tiffany?”
She snapped to get his attention as Waylin sank even further down in his seat. “Stay with me here, Thad. You can leave with the clothes on your backs and nothing more. Understood?”
If looks could sear flesh from bone, she’d be a puddle of goo on the floor. “Understood,” he gritted out.
“Great,” Knox said, slamming a palm down on the table. “It’s settled. Luther will be chairman of the board, I’ll keep my seat, Waylin will remain my board bitch for as long as I need him around, and Kay will be CEO.” Then he turned to Tenley and added, “Can we go now?”
She glanced over at Kay. “You good?”
She nodded enthusiastically. “This is the most fun I’ve ever had at one of these meetings.”
“Awesome,” Knox said. “Meeting adjourned.”
As John, Thadeus, and Waylin scampered out of the room like the cockroaches they were, and Kay excused herself to go check out her new corner office, Tenley practically leapt from her chair and straddled Knox in his.
She gave him a toe-curling, rock-his-world kind of kiss that said more about her feelings for him than words ever could. But she knew she’d eventually have to get more comfortable with using her words like a grown-up, so she broke the kiss and pulled back just far enough to rest her forehead against his.
“What happens now?” she asked.
“Ever been bent over a conference room table?”
She barked out a laugh. “That’s not what I mean. I mean, now that you have your trust and your mother’s company is safe, what happens with us?”
He grinned and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. “We go home.”
“Where’s home?”
“Wherever you are.”
Swoon! “I’d rather not live in that mausoleum.”
He chuckled. “Agreed. But why’d you fight for it if you didn’t want to live there?”
“I didn’t want Thadeus to have it. Plus, I figured we could bulldoze it and build something different if we wanted to. A house we can fill with your furniture?”
