“You,” she said, giving me a smug look. “We have a meeting.”
I stood up and pulled at my clothes then followed her to Brittany Dawn’s office. Marius, the VP of the legal department, was there. Neither smiled when they saw me.
Fine. We were all going to be miserable today.
I glowered at both of them.
I thought Marius might have winced slightly, but that could have been the hangover from the pity party we’d thrown in the lobby last night.
I crossed my arms.
“Lexi,” Brittany Dawn said, opening up the employee handbook. “When you were hired to this company, we asked that you read and understand the employee handbook. On this page you will note that Richmond Electric does not allow for relationships between employees and their supervisors.”
“Yep,” I said. “Scored A on the quiz at the end of the webinar.”
“We have evidence,” Anthym snapped. “I know you were the mystery woman. You haven’t been at Grayson’s penthouse doing your job. You’ve been sleeping with him. Manipulative skank.”
“You’re just jealous,” I shot back, which was not a nice thing to say, but my well of niceness was running dry.
“At least I’m not sending homemade porn to my boss,” Anthym shrieked.
I felt like I was going to faint.
She can’t know about that.
Anthym triumphantly threw down a set of screenshots of one of the naughty videos I’d sent Grayson.
Marius covered his eyes and swore.
Brittany Dawn scooped the pages off her desk.
“Sexting is also against the code of conduct,” she said, flipping to another sticky-tabbed page.
“Screw the handbook. What about Grayson?” I yelled at her.
“Mr. Richmond is the CEO,” Brittany Dawn replied.
“So the rules don’t apply to him, huh? Marius you’re a lawyer. The rules don’t apply to the CEO?”
“Technically no,” he said, seeming mildly uncomfortable. “Gray—Mr. Richmond isn’t an employee. He owns the company.”
“Marius,” Brittany Dawn said sharply, “this is not an argument. Now Lexi, there is no evidence that Mr. Richmond actually had a relationship with you. The only evidence we have is the photos you sent to him and the frankly lecherous text messages. Not to mention all the notes you left everywhere, which you are on record admitting that you left him.”
“She’s been sexually harassing him. Grayson is in a fragile mental state.” Anthym crossed her arms. “She was manipulating him and blackmailing him. I’m glad I intervened when I did because she could have ended up pregnant and tried to steal half the company, then we’d all be out of a job. Grayson’s going to be relieved when I tell him what I found and that you’re finally out of his life.”
“How dare you!” I took two steps toward her. “I would never. And I’ll have you know that while we did have sex, I—”
“Wait,” Marius said frowning. “So Grayson didn’t give you these text messages?”
“I had to hunt them down,” Anthym bragged.
“How?” Marius asked her.
“I convinced Todd in IT to help me access Grayson’s cloud storage account and download everything,” she said, preening.
“Brittany Dawn, please process Anthym’s dismissal paperwork, effective immediately,” Marius said to the HR director.
“How dare you!” Anthym turned her rage on him.
