Someone pounded on my door, and Raquel reached over and opened it. Orion walked in and glared at me. “What the fuck’s goin’ on?” he demanded.
“Oh, put your dick back in your pants,” Raquel retorted as I bit back a laugh. “I told him everything. He’s fine with it.”
“Then why the hell are you crying?” he asked, at the same time I said, “Not sure I said I was fine with it.”
Raquel turned to me. “Can you give us a minute?”
I studied Orion for a minute and waited until he showed me his throat, symbolically, by lowering his head in contrition. We may not be part of the same club, but I was still his superior, and he knew it.
“Tris, please,” Raquel pressed.
I pushed away from my desk and left them alone, running into Olivia as I walked out of the room.
“Is she still alive?” Olivia deadpanned.
Ignoring her question, I cupped her chin and kissed her quickly. “Did you eat?”
“I started to. But when I saw Orion walk this way, I figured I’d come and make sure everything was okay.”
“Everything’s fine.”
She gripped my cut and frowned. “Were you hard on her?”
“No, sweetness, I was not. Not my job.”
She relaxed, smiling. “I think she’s in love with him.”
“Yeah, she might be.”
She slid her hands up my chest. “How do you feel about that?”
“Not sure, baby. You really gonna make me visit this right now?”
“No. We can drill down on that another time.”
I wrapped an arm around her shoulders. “Thanks.”
“I have some work to do. I’m going to shut myself in the office for a bit, okay?”
I nodded. “Yeah. I’ll come check on you in a bit.”
She walked away, and I waited for my sister to finish her conversation.
* * *
Olivia
I’d been in the officefor about an hour when someone knocked at the door. “Come in.”
Lyric poked her head inside. “Hey.”
“Hi,” I said, closing my laptop and setting it beside me on the sofa.
“Just wanted to give you an update on Joey,” she said, walking in and sitting in the cuddle chair beside the sofa.
“That’s a fast update.”
“I don’t fuck around with this kind of bullshit,” she said, irritation in her tone. “That boy is going down. In the form of an ‘anonymous’ tip to the authorities about some of his illegal activities I managed to bury. It’s so fascinating that it came to light now. Very coincidental.”
