Oh my God.
Why hadn’t I thought of that?
“Office gossip has him banging one of the junior partners,”I shared.
“Yup,” Daisy stated.“Hiding assets.He’s gonna scrape offthe wife for the side piece.”
He totally was.
“After I talked with our network administrator, Jeffreycalled me into his office,” I told them.“He asked me to bring the file, theone with nothing in it.He’s usually very professional.Friendly, but abe-a-good-team though work-is-work, get-the-job-done type of guy.Except, whenI brought the file, he was being super outgoing in an oily way that felt dirty,telling me theRemostrosdeal was highlyconfidential, they were important clients, would mean a ton of billable hours,and the firm had promised them his individual attention.”
“And you didn’t buy it,” Ally said.
“That was when I started digging deeper.But my bad feelingwas helped when he ordered me in no uncertain terms not to speak to anybodyabout it.Not anybody.Not even the other partners.”
“Well, stop digging,” Ally ordered.“I’ll get Brody on it sowe can make sure this isn’t extortion, and your firm isn’t going to bevulnerable to whatever he’s doing.But if he’s preparing to fuck over his wife,you got a decision to make.That being, does she somehow learn, anonymously,he’s screwing around on her at the same time setting her up just to screw her?”
“That would be my vote,” Ava said.
“Me too,” Sadie put in.
“Totes,” Roxie added.
“Malia, you do any of that research on a work computer?”Shirleen asked me.
More shaking of my head.“No.I did it at home.”
She nodded once.“Smart girl.”
I smiled at her.
“I think we all know everyone’s vote, but it’s gotta comefrom you,” Ally said to me.“If it’s him ramping up to fuck over his wife, doyou want her to know?”
I thought about Jeffrey.
I didn’t really know him.The underlings didn’t pal aroundwith the partners, but he was even more removed.
Though I did know he was in his early fifties, he and hiswife had three kids, all of them in college.They’d been married since collegethemselves.The junior partner he was possibly sleeping with was in hermid-thirties, smart, gorgeous and a shark.And Jeffrey’s wife planned all ofour office parties.
She was the perfect attorney’s wife.She didn’t work, exceptthe onerous jobs of making his life and family run smoothly so he could makehis mark, and she bent over backward to make him look good to colleagues, staffand clients.
I didn’t really know her either.
I just knew she didn’t deserve to be screwed over while herhusband lived the high life with the next young thing.
“Yes,” I answered.“Definitely.”
Ally pushed up from her chair, muttering, “We’re on it.”
She walked away, putting her phone to her ear, now allbusiness.
Wow.
Shewaskinda badass.
“This isn’t gonna amount to anything.”Annette soundeddisappointed.“This Jeffrey guy gets it in his head to kidnap you or car bombyou, and he gets one look at Darius, he’s gonna tuck his tail between his legsand move himself and his fuck buddy to Panama.”
“Good riddance, I say,” Jet muttered.
