Jeffrey was in it.
“Malia.My office.Now.”
He turned on his heel and stormed through the cubbies towardhis office.
With Samantha and Robin staring at me, I got up and followedhim.
“Close the door,” he snapped when I made it to his office.
I closed the door and stood in front of it.
“Did you defy my direct orders about our client,Remostros?”he asked.
“Sorry?”I asked back.
“Remostros.I told you to let thatlie and keep it confidential.Did you speak to anyone about it?”
“I…” I faked confusion.“Wait, you mean that empty file?”
“Yes,” he said through his teeth.
“Honestly, I didn’t think anything about it.I mean, it wasempty, and you said you’d handle it and I’ve been busy with other things.”Ilooked to the door behind me, still faking it, then back to him.“Did I messup?Is something wrong?Did you need my assistance with something on that?”
He visibly ground his teeth before he kept talking throughthem.“No.It’s fine.Get back to that discovery.”
I nodded, but still faking it, I asked with concern, “Areyou okay?”
“I’m fine,” he forced out.“Thank you.But that discoveryneeds your attention.”
“Of course,” I murmured, then lit out of there trying not tolook like I was lighting out of there.
Samantha gave itsome timeafter Ireturned before she asked, “What wasthat?”
“My guess, he fucked around and found out,” I told her.
She smiled.
I got to work.
I’d learned to keep the Bluetooth bud in my ear when I wasin the car, considering I was a Rock Chick now, and they knew I didn’t havetime at work to field calls, but they were rabid communicators.And it wasn’tall just invitations.It was also that they needed style advice, or to complainabout their hot guys and how their overabundance of testosterone made thembehave, or just to shoot the shit.
I liked it.
I’d missed it.
I’d had a big posse in high school, and I loved having thatback.
But this time, on my way home that evening, it was me whocalled Ally.
“Yo,chickie,”she answered.
“The shit hit the fan today at work.”
Now she was faking it.“Did it?”
“Ally, after Carrie, the woman he’s cheating on his wifewith, shouted at him in his office, he came right to me and asked aboutRemostros.”
“What’d you say?”
