I email back my tech guy, he’s the one that brought this shit to my attention and thankfully he did. He’s now currently looking over other emails that have been sent from every employee that works for me. There’s no fucking way that this is going to continue. I’ll be damned if I lose business because someone under my employment has sold secrets, there’ll be hell to pay.
“Um. Mr. Hartford,” Anna-Beth says, knocking on my office door.
“Enter,” I say loud enough for her to hear.
She pushes the door open and she gives me a shy smile as she enters the room. “Everyone is waiting for you in the conference room.”
I rise to my feet and straighten my jacket. “Anna-Beth, have security ready,” I ask. Watching my tone, realizing that I have been short and sharp with her today.
“Yes sir,” she says as she rushes toward her desk.
My strides are long as I move toward the conference room. I’m beyond angry. So fucking pissed. It’s going to take me a while to calm the fuck down but I can’t right now, I’m too damn angry.
“Boss?” Keira says as I walk into the room. “Is everything okay?”
I look around the room, taking in every single employee I have, I’m wondering how many of them have betrayed this company.
“I received an email from tech this morning,” I announce. “He found evidence of someone giving details of acquisitions and mergers to our competition.”
Shocked gasps and wide eyes all around. They’re all acting as though they have no clue as to what I’m saying, Including James.
“Every email that has been sent, any message, or call to a competitor will be uncovered. This is your only time to speak the truth.”
Silence. Dead fucking silence.
I nod. “If that’s the way you want it. So be it. James, you have two minutes to clear out your desk. Security is waiting to escort you out of the building. Your access to any files has been revoked. Let this be a lesson to all of you. The truth will always come out and when it does, you’ll be fired.”
I move back toward the door, I’ve said what I’ve wanted. I reach the doorway and look backward at them all, everyone is staring at James with disgust.
“My attorney will be in contact, James, I’m sure you’ll look forward to it.”
I need a fucking drink. Maybe five.
* * *
Walking into Club Nirvana, the music is pumping and everyone is having a good time. I’ve spent the entire day dealing with the aftermath of what James has done, ensuring my clients that they’re assets are fine and that it was a breach but it’s fine. I’ve been taking call after call, it’s been a fucking shit show and I’m glad that it’s over. Now it’s time to unwind.
I order a drink and sit at the bar, watching everyone around me. It’s been a while since I’ve dated. My ex-wife and I split almost five years ago after being together for over a decade. It was an amicable split. We grew apart. I was focused on growing my business and she wasn’t willing to have a part-time husband. It was shit, especially as I had to say goodbye to Shelby, she was nineteen at the time and had already moved out of the house. It’s been years since I last saw her. Tanya’s already remarried and from what I know, she’s happy.
“Have you seen her,” I hear a guy say from beside me. “Look at that ass, those fucking hips. God, she’s huge, but Christ, that ass. What I wouldn’t do to fuck her.”
“You’d have to do her doggy style,” his friend replies. “Just hit it from the back.”
God, these assholes are sickening. Didn’t their parents teach them how to treat people the right way? The fucking way they’re talking about that woman makes me sick.
I glance in the direction of where they’re looking and I can’t ignore the beauty before me. Her curves were mesmerizing and I can’t help but admire her full figure. Yet, I also feel a twinge of jealousy of her body that I know I could never have. She’s got to be in her early twenties. I’m forty-nine.
They were right, her body was voluptuous and displayed her curves perfectly. She has a perfectly round ass, thick thighs, and a handful of tits. When my eyes reach her face, I forget how to breathe. She’s breathtakingly beautiful, she has big gorgeous-round eyes, high cheekbones, a full mouth and heavy lips.
Our eyes meet and those plump lips pull into a smile, I swallow past the lump in my throat. Those eyes, they look so familiar but yet, I can’t place them.
I turn back to my drink and try to put the gorgeous woman out of my mind. She’s way too fucking young for me.
“Hey Sexy,” I hear a while later. Those stupid guys haven’t stopped talking about the woman and how much they want her just for her ass. Fucking assholes. “Are you a pirate from space? Because your booty is out of this world,” he says and chuckles at his own fucking joke.
I press my lips together so that I don’t laugh at his lame attempts of trying to pick up the woman.
“Hey that’s a new one,” I hear the woman reply, her voice is pure sex. My gut tightens. I turn and see that it’s the woman who was dancing. I haven’t felt this deep attraction to anyone in a long fucking time.