Page 39 of Filthy Boss

Chap 24- Ty

I didn’t want her to leave. I played it off, but dammit, the little things like that are hard to get used to. I’ve never been like this over a woman. A few days ago, I was afraid that once I had her, I would get tired of her.

But now I want more of her. I want her all the time.

This is a feeling I haven’t had in a long time. Not about wanting her near me, that’s a first. The being in over my head feeling that always shows up when I think about her. Sex is the easy part- I don’t have to think. It’s the rest of the time.

There was a silver lining when she took off for a few hours. I can’t concentrate on work with her so close to me, teasing me, flirting with me all day. All I want to do is take her again.

A little after noon, I called Reed, just to allay any worries and see if he had it all set. And to distract me from thinking all these things about Milly. Reed would set me straight. “Are we all set?”

“I don’t know. How did grabbing someone from their offices work out?”

“Great. Milly Wells is a superstar. I know we’re not hiring until fall, but I think she should be an exception.” She is an exception.

“Milly Wells. There might be a problem. That office below us was rented three months ago but they never staffed it after 3rd quarter revenue nose dived.”

“Are you sure?”

“When I mentioned you were going to grab one of their employees from a few floors down, they had no idea what I was talking about. So we spent an afternoon finding out. She takes the money and does no work. For months. Stealing. Embezzlement. I’m not sure what we have to call it.”

“Three months? I don’t believe it.”

“If you saw how badly the rest of the company is being managed you’d believe it.”

“Those pricks. They sent her to a new city, promoted her, then forgot about her.”

“I’ll be surprised if that’s the dumbest thing they’ve done. We can’t use her now. You know that.”

“This isn’t her fault. It was incompetent company sending a check to an employee they forgot to fire, forgot to give work to, forgot, period. I know what I pay for office space two floors up, so I have a good idea of the rent they paid every month for nothing- that waste was 10-times the waste of paying her.”

But, fuck, it wasn’t a waste.

“I mean what would you do in that situation?”

“I’d straighten it out, after three days- not three months.”

“But you’re a boy scout. What would your brother do?”

“He’d come to see me and I’d force him to correct it, or do it myself.”

“He’s lucky to have the moral pillar of the fucking universe as his twin brother. Not everybody has that. I sure as hell don’t.”

“You’re fucking her aren’t you?”

How do I answer that? YES!!!. No. He didn’t let me figure out a lie.

“You don’t even have to answer. In fact that’s a stupid question. I’ll clean up the mess in three months by the time you drop her.”

“This is different. She’s different.” I’m different.

“I’m going to put your words down on my calendar for three months from now. The board isn’t going to approve us with her as an employee. Not with her working for you. It makes them look like idiots. It’s even worse if she is a superstar. We’re rubbing their noses in it.”

“They are idiots.”

“We’re bigger idiots if we lose this because of her. Think with your head, not your cock.”

Neither is trustworthy these days. “I’ll talk to her.”

And she’ll pay for not telling me the truth.

---