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I passed Cindy on the way to my office. “I’m going home,” I told her.
“Are you okay?”
I turned. “I don’t get paid enough to put up with this shit.” I spun and continued to the temporary sanctuary of my office.
After closing the door behind me, I let out the yell I’d been holding in. “Fuck!” It was the most coherent thing I could manage. It summed up my whole horrible day.
Take that,Dennis fucking Benson. I’m not kissing anybody’s ass, and there goes your precious little deal.
Collapsing into the chair behind my desk-for-a-day, my eyes closed with the weight of my failure. I would have to be satisfied with torching the deal, along with his relationship with Talbot. It was all that could be salvaged out of this miserable day.
Tomorrow I’d have no job, no paycheck, and no entry back into this building to get the files to take down Benson once and for all.
He had no idea I was his personal nemesis, but somehow he’d dodged the bad news bulletandgotten rid of me, all in two days. The man had some super-lucky charm.
As my eyes reopened, I took one last look around the sumptuous office. “I guess you win.”
He’d won, I’d lost, and it was time to find another job. The rent would still be due.
How long would it take to get on unemployment? That was something I didn’t know.
The karma of this was all wrong, dead wrong.
A knock sounded at the door.
“Come in.”
It was old man Talbot.
I straightened up, and hid my surprise. “What can I do for you James?”
“We’d, like… I’d like another chance to talk this through.” The man was fresh out of bravado.
“Okay, I’ll join you in a minute.”
He shut the door, and I gathered up my nerve.
The deal was harder than a cockroach to kill, but where there was a will, there was a way, and I sure as hell had the will.
I’d make sure Benson and Talbot didn’t talk to each other for a fucking year.
Chapter 11
Dennis
I’d been mentally swearingat my bad luck this week for ten minutes when the knock came.
Cindy popped her head in. “They’re ready for you now.”
That meant Jennifer had finished kissing ass enough for me to try to recover the deal.
Later I would have to apologize to Jay. He’d been right that I should have known better than to take a rookie into a meeting like that. I’d eat the crow I deserved for jumping down his throat earlier.
“You better give her a raise before you lose her,” Cindy said as I passed by.
“Right.” No way was that happening. It didn’t matter how distasteful apologizing to Talbot had been.
As I entered, Syd was sliding paperwork across to Talbot. “I made the changes we agreed on, and we’re ready now,” he said.
