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“Don’t let him out of your sight.”
She nods, and I make my way to the meeting room. I need to keep my head in the game, I need to focus on work, then on Josh, then on Tanya.
It’s going to be a long day.
The meeting ends up lasting an hour and a half, and by the time I’m heading back to my office, I’m already on the verge of losing it. I don’t know what it is with this week, but it’s like everyone got together and decided that today was a good day to be absolutely useless.
I have meeting after meeting today, and I don’t want to deal with Josh right now, but I know he’s not going to leave until we talk.
He’s got the worst timing.
I glance at Jillian as I pass her desk, and she gives me a smile and a thumbs up. She’s young, and at times like this, I can’t help but wonder why she chooses to work here. She could have more time to be young if she chose to work somewhere else. She wouldn’t have to worry about missing out on big moments with her kids, or losing the love of her life because she works too much.
I shake myself out of my thoughts before I spiral any further. I’ve got to keep my head in the game.
I can see Josh before I get to my office, just like Jillian said she would, and he’s slumped into the seat reading one of the business magazines I leave on the tables. He doesn’t so much as move his eyes to look at me when I enter and walk over to my desk.
“If you want to talk now, you’re going to have to do so while I work. I don’t have time to stop and focus on you now that you’ve decided to talk to me.”
He tosses the magazine onto the table, unfolds himself from the chair, and walks over to my desk to sit in the chair across from me. He doesn’t say anything, and when I look up at him, he’s staring at me.
“What do you want, Josh? You obviously have something to say.”
“What did she tell you?”
Every muscle in my body tenses.
“I knew it. I knew you said something to her. What did you do?”
He looks shocked to hear that Tanya didn’t say anything to me.
“You don’t know? She didn’t say anything?”
I rub at my temples and take a deep breath.
“No, she didn’t say anything. I saw you sneak off at the party and when you both came back, she looked off. She said she was fine and that you two just ran into each other, and now she hasn’t spoken to me in a week.”
He looks away from me when I look up at him again.
“Josh, just tell me what you said to her.”
I’m already working at not lunging across this desk and decking him, and I know what he tells me next is going to force me to use all of my will power. I can’t go around punching people, even if I do own the company.
“I told her what I really think. I think she ran from you, and when you found her, she had to come up with a reason and it was amnesia. I think she wants your money and having another kid is the way for her to get it.”
I’m going to kill him.
“Get out.”
I have to clench my jaw tight so I don’t start screaming at him.
“What?”
I slowly stand and rest my hands on my desk, keeping my eyes locked on the dark wood under them.
“Get. Out.”
He still doesn’t move, and I’m losing the very thin grasp I have on my control.
