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His face was red, but I could tell he wasn’t going to stand up to me. Tony had always been soft. Rob was leaning in his doorway, shaking his head in resignation, and it made me even angrier.
I stepped close to Tony, wanting to push him, wanting him to react. It might be good for someone to hit me. I wondered if I would actually feel it if he did. Everything inside me was deadened and dull—would it hurt if Tony broke my nose? I got in his face and yelled, “Tell me how hard it can be, Tony, to do your fucking job. Keep the board happy, don’t break the law. Have we even signed any fucking deals lately? Have you had to actually do a goddamned thing here? I think you spend all your time in your big leather office surrounded by your leather-bound legal books buffing your fucking banana!”
Tony just stared at me and then spun and walked back into his office. “I’ll talk to you when you’re rational,” he said, closing his door.
Fury boiled over in me and at this point I was completely out of control. I swept an arm across the top of a file cabinet, sending more plants flying to the floor with a resounding crash. The soil spilled out from the broken pots and settled into the pattern of the expensive carpeting Adam had picked out when we’d built these towers. I ground it in with my foot.
“Hey,” Rob said, coming out from his doorway, his voice quiet and his shoulders slumping forward. “Go home, Oliver. We’ve got this. Go get some rest.”
“Fuck you!” I said. “You’re the one who asked me to come in here.”
“I didn’t know you were going to go human tornado on the place.” He looked around, his face drawn and pale. “Just go home.”
Just then, the two security guards from the desk in the lobby downstairs stepped into the executive rotunda from the reception area.
“Everything okay up here?” one of the guards asked, looking around at the disaster I’d created.
“Fine.” I seethed. “Everything is fine.”
“Could you please see Mr. Cody back to his car?” Rob asked them.
One of the guards moved to take my arm and I spun. “Don’t you fucking touch me, Sal!”
He put his palms up and backed away. “Sorry, Mr. Cody.”
The other guard, Antoine, said, “Why don’t you ride back down with us? We’ll make sure you get out okay.”
My mind was a whirling mess. I knew Rob and Tony didn’t deserve my rage, but I didn’t know where else to put it. I followed the guards through the now-empty reception area and into the elevator. Once we were at the bottom, I stormed out to the parking garage and back to my car. I was a fucking disaster. And I had no idea what to do about it.
