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She gave me a thumbs up. “Good. I’d hate to have wasted my time breaking you in, only to have you leave the company. And God knows this place could use some reaching out.”
I still had to figure out what that term meant.
She called after me. “Don’t you want to know where your new office is?”
I turned and gritted my teeth to keep from taking it out on her. “New office?”
“On twenty-five. Zoe is already on the way to her new job in finance.” Anita held up her hands. “Sorry. Martin asked about the office, and he…” She flicked her eyes to dad’s door. “Said yes.”
“Makes sense,” I lied. Of course Martin would want my corner office one floor down from here to go along with his shiny new title. Neither was mine any longer.
“Thanks. I’ll miss you,” I said as I left.
* * *
Down on twenty-six,Diane wasn’t at her desk outside my office—my old office.
I did a double take when I reached for the door handle.
The nameplate had already been changed toMartin Graff.
One part of me was proud that we had another shark at the company to take over this job—it wasn’t a position for someone timid. But the other half was pissed that he hadn’t waited until I’d at least removed my things.
I pulled open the door, and the half that was pissed at him became a full ninety percent.
The office, my office, was empty. Everything was gone, even my special-order ergonomic desk chair.
That slimy fucker.
This was over the top. I didn’t know when, but I’d get him back for this, and good. Had the fucker also peed on the walls to mark his new territory? I wouldn’t put it past him.
With nothing to do here, if wasn’t going to set a booby-trap, I entered the elevator a second time and descended another floor.
“I actually like this better than upstairs,” Diane said as I approached. Short, wearing a green blouse and with red hair that was curled for volume, she looked like she’d stepped off a Christmas card.
I shook my head. Lower was never better.
“You get the office with a deck outside,” she noted. “You could have lunch out there in the sun while everyone else is stuck inside.” Her outlook on the situation mirrored her normally sunny disposition. If there was a silver lining to be found, Diane March found it for us. She was a good counterpoint to my killer instinct.
The door to my new office was open, the name plate already in place, and from here, it looked like it had already been set up. My chair was behind the desk, and just as she said, there was a door to the patio in the corner.
“It looks like you’ve been busy.” I nodded my approval as I stood at the doorway. “What would I do without you?”
“You’d probably be figuring out a way to murder Martin.”
I nodded. She wasn’t wrong.
“I’d remind you not to trust him, but you already know how I feel.” It had to do with Martin dating and quickly dumping her cousin.
“Maybe I should ask you where I could buy poison darts.”
She laughed. “A sense of humor. That’s the way to start, although shouldn’t we find a way to make him suffer before killing him?”
I was only half joking. Switching gears I asked, “Any idea what we do here?”
“I’m not the person to ask. However, you have a meeting on your schedule at one.”
That didn’t give me long to figure it out. “Who with?”
