I fucking hate meetings.
Adrian and Caleb do most of the talking when it comes to tailoring each package to whatever the client thinks they need.Body guards, event protection, surveillance, asset relocation.Thanks to Adrian’s tech wizardry, we also install state-of-the-art security systems.Casinos eat that shit up.
We’ve got a full staff trained and ready, but I stay out of the office as much as I can.But, I can’t kill people every day, that’d get oddly suspicious after a while.So when I’m between jobs, I show up, nod at the appropriate moments, follow Adrian and Caleb around with Atlas too, of course.
Honestly?
Sitting through those mind-melting meetings is probably the only time I feel normal.
I can pretend for an hour or so that I’m just a guy with an office job.
I’ve sat through forty-five minutes of a meeting and couldn’t tell you one detail.I’ve been making a mental list of all the reasons I shouldn’t text Melinda.I give it another thirty seconds before I sayfuck itand open my messages because I didn’t say good morning before.
Good morning Lindy girl.
Lindy Girl:
Good morning Cassius.Should I give you a nickname?
Please don’t start calling me Cass or Cassi.
Lindy Girl:
I was thinking Ass.
Funny.She’s funny.Who knew?How’s your morning going?
Lindy Girl:
You mean since you asked what I was doing a few minutes ago?Mostly good.
Mostly?
Lindy Girl:
The guy I was supposed to go to dinner with…now I’m going to lunch with.
I squeeze the phone tight enough to crack the screen, so I set it face down.
Why?
Lindy Girl:
Because I ditched him last night and want to make it up to him.
Why?
Lindy Girl:
Because it’s my second day on the job and I’m not ready to be disliked so soon.
I want to tell her she doesn’t owe anyone shit.That she’s brilliant.That she could walk circles around whatever dumbass she’s meeting.But she doesn’t know I know she’s brilliant.And I’m not supposed to care.
You don’t have to feel bad for telling people no.
I want to tack on that if anyone makes her feel bad about anything, I havenoissue slitting their throat.
I refrain.For now.
