Page 51 of Always Salty

For hours now, they’d been flirting and acting like they were two seconds away from ripping clothes off and fucking each other.

And I was done.

So overly done.

I hated this job.

Even worse, I hated my other job more.

A job that I refused to get any compensation for, and now had to go visit when I was done here.

If I was lucky, I’d be able to catch some drive through McDonald’s before I headed that way.

If Copper was smart, though, he’d have it ready for me.

Speaking of Copper…

“Hello?” I answered his fourth phone call of the night.

“A couple of weeks ago, there was a board meeting discussing a merger between Real Estate Ark-La-Tex and Castanon,” he started out without a greeting. “In the board meeting notes, it specifically said that you were opposed to the merger, and that you didn’t agree, and were the deciding vote for it. Yet, a contract is on my desk right now for the merger.”

I frowned, trying to go back to the day we’d talked about a merger, and came up empty.

“I don’t know,” I admitted. “I can’t remember anything about it.”

“In the board meeting notes, it specifically says that you were appraised, and opposed.” He paused. “But, as I’m looking at it, I don’t see anything else said by you at all.”

I was too tired for this. “I don’t remember anything about it, Copper. I’m sorry.”

“Okay,” he sighed. “You’ll still be coming in after work? I have a few more things I want to go over with you.”

“Yeah,” I yawned. “Why are you there so late?”

“Well,” he paused. “There’s a lot to catch up on. And about ten years of neglected paperwork and quality control issues. Which coincide with you taking over CE.”

I grinned. “I did the best I could.”

“I know.” I could tell he was smiling. “It’s still here. And fully functional, if not a little…problematic. Once I get the board members straightened out, and the weak links out of the building, I’ll get it straightened out.”

“Are you getting me food, or will I be responsible for getting my own?” I yawned again.

“I’ll have it delivered,” he said. “Chevy and Cutter will be here, too.”

“Okay.” I yawned for a third time. “Have coffee.”

“I’ll do that,” he teased and hung up.

I yawned for a fourth time and then got up to get some paperwork done.

I was very tired today.

When I had days off, I tended to flip back to my normal sleep cycle of night sleeping. When I had to make the flip only for a night like I did this time, I tended to be extremely tired, like I was right then.

My new coworker, Melody, made a particularly disgusting comment about how hot the doctor was, and I inwardly groaned.

Would it be that hard to take the talk into the damn break room, at least?

Rolling my eyes, I got up and headed to the break room myself for a small break.

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