Page 8 of Big Bad Wolf: B.B.W

“A formal warning? Okay, well you do what you have to. I’ve sent the instructions.”

“So, you’re refusing to send me the report, Elodie? I want to make sure we are both clear on the actions and what the consequences of that action will be.” She stood with her arms crossed over herself.

I sat back in my seat. “Sherrie, you have access to the report. If you prefer to have someone pull reports and send them to you, may I suggest that you hire an assistant. That is more of their job duty.”

“Why would I hire an assistant when I have you? That would be a waste of company funds.” Her little lip twerked up.

“You would hire an assistant because it is not the marketing manager’s job to pull reports for you that you have access to.” Orion’s voice bounced around the walls of my office. It wasn’t loud, but it was forceful.

Sherrie jumped and spun around on her heels. “Orion, I’m sorry. I didn’t see you there.”

Orion stepped completely into the office and closed the door. “Sherrie, please have a seat. Let’s have a managers’ meeting. I see that some trivial items need to be ironed out.”

If I bet my last dollar, I would bet that Sherrie wanted to crawl in a hole. She sat down in the seat that was in front of my desk, and Orion sat in the other one next to her after he pulled it away from her.

“Sherrie, now, I’m the owner, and I pull my own reports when I need them. What makes you so important that our marketing manager has to pull your report?” Orion lifted his finger before she could answer his question. “Be careful with your answer.”

She squirmed in her seat. “Um, I simply asked her to do a task that shouldn’t be an issue. I am her manager.”

“Yes, but you are not her dictator. Pulling your reports that you have access to and have been emailed to you are not a part of her job duties. I know this because I wrote the duties myself as well as revamp them every few years,” Orion said flatly.

“Let me ask this. Do you know how to access the reports?”

I knew the answer to that was no. This bitch did the bare minimum in her position. Now that Orion was physically here, it was harder for her to fake the funk.

“Of course, I know how to access the reports. I access them all the time.” Her hand slapped her chest, her neck stretched back, and her face tightened.

Orion nodded, then stood. “Cool. Let’s go on a little field trip to your office. I want you to pull a report for me since we’re pulling reports for others now.” He turned his sexy face toward me. “Elodie, please accompany us just in case she needs assistance.”

Did he just call her bluff? I felt like a kid for a split second. I wanted to say, yeah, now what?

“I definitely can assist if I’m needed.”

“Orion, this feels like bullying, and I’m not sure that I like it,” Sherrie said after she stood and took a step back. When the tears fell from her shady eyes, I wanted to throw up.

Orion’s face held no feelings at all. My eyes ping ponged between the two of them. What’s he going to say? His swollen arms crossed over his chest.

“Sherrie, those white tears of yours move nothing here at Leventis International Marketing Firm. The owner of the company wanting to ensure that you have access and know how to access a database is in no way bullying. I want to make sure that the person who has the title as the branch manager has the competence to maintain not only the title but the pay.”

Sherrie doubled down. “White tears? This is intimidation.”

“Sherrie, were you intimidated when you asked if I would put my dick down your throat last week? Were you intimidated when you used the monthly branch lunch budget line for your personal usage?” Orion asked.

“Matter of fact, Elodie, pull the spending reports as well as the receipts filed with it for Sherrie.” He never took his eyes off her. “That is embezzlement.”

All the color drained from her face. “I-I would never?—”

Orion put his finger up to cut her off. “We’re not going to do this.

I am going to give you two options, and which one you take determines what my future actions will be.

One, you go to your office, pack your personal shit, and get the fuck out of my building.

The second is that you stand here like an ass and I have you removed. ”

Her eyes bucked at her options. I had to cross my legs before the silent orgasm that I just had behind him putting her in her place leaked out. There was nothing like a man who stood on business.

“I will leave, but believe me, you will hear from me again. Next time, it will be with my lawyer! You and this bitch . . . aaah!”

I jumped when my degree that was mounted on the wall fell off and hit Sherrie dead in her head.

“Oh my God, Sherrie!” I rushed around my desk. I looked at the wall then down at my framed degree that now lay on the ground with broken glass covering it. “Are you alright?”

“Don’t fucking touch me, bitch!” She pushed me away when I tried to help her. Her hand covered the back of her head where the picture hit. Her blonde hair there was tinted red. “You did this!”

Orion sucked his teeth. “How the hell could she have done that when she was behind her desk? Now, I suggest you get medical attention. Since the injury happened here, it will be covered under workman’s comp.

I’ll let that ride before I put in your termination.

Let your lawyer know that my legal team will be ready when he contacts them so that we can determine how to move forward with the embezzlement and criminal charges that will be forthcoming. ”

Sherrie and I gawked at him to determine his seriousness.

Orion was dead ass serious. After another few beats, Sherrie pulled my office door open hard and stormed out of the office.

Orion stepped out behind her, so I went to my closet to get the broom and dustpan for the broken frame.

By the time that I finished the cleanup, Orion was back in the office.

“Orion, did that really just happen?” I put the broom and dustpan away before I spoke again. “Was she really embezzling or you just said that?”

His head bucked back. “Don’t insult me, Ellie.

You should know me well enough by now to know that I don’t pop fiction.

Yes, she was, but not on a large scale. As you know, there is fifteen hundred dollars for the company-sponsored lunch budget line.

When was the last time y’all had a sponsored lunch? ”

I lifted my shoulders to my ears. “I wasn’t trying to insult you, and I know your dick, but yeah. Um, we had one when you got here. Before that it was a very long time.”

“The monthly lunches weren’t happening, but the money was still being spent on caterers and stuff.

After a little research, it was discovered that she used the money to have her own monthly gatherings with her friends.

The caterer that she paid was a friend, who charged her on the bill for the fifteen but gave Sherrie a kickback.

” It wasn’t clear if Orion was mad or annoyed.

“As far as only knowing my dick, that will be changed.”

My head tilted. My curiosity was piqued. “How are you going to change that?”

He gave me that sexy smirk then looked at his wristwatch that cost more than my damn vehicle.

“We can discuss that later. Right now, I need you to pack your shit and move into Sherrie’s office.

Have a salary number in mind for your promotion meeting tomorrow for your new branch manager position.

Also, decide whether you want to pull one of the other managers up to the marketing manager position or source outside of the company.

I have a meeting in ten minutes that I need to prepare for. ”

He said all of that, walked over to me, pecked my lips with his, then left my office. My head spun. I sat down in my chair. I knew that I said I wanted a bigger office, I just didn’t think that it would come with a promotion.

A Short Time Later . . .

When Orion said that he would change the fact that I only knew his dick, he meant it.

The next day, he formally asked me out on a date.

Naturally, I accepted. When I asked him for the details of the date, he told me that I would have them all soon.

When he randomly texted me about whether I had a passport, I was even more intrigued.

Well, Mr. Leventis was a man that did it big.

I knew that from how he handled his business, and now, I knew from how he handled his personal life.

We didn’t go on our date, if it could even be called that, until the next weekend.

He told me to pack a bag for the weekend, and a car would pick me up on Friday morning.

That confused me because I had to work, but he informed me that I had the day off that was customary when transitioning to a new role in the company.

It was the company policy that when an associate was promoted to a new role, the last day in their previous role was given to them as a paid transitional day off.

It allowed the associates to get their mind prepared for their new space within the firm.

When Orion said that a car would pick me up on Friday morning, I didn’t think he meant at damn midnight on Friday morning.

I didn’t like that, but my mouth was sealed when we pulled up to a private airport.

The car pulled right up to the plane like I was a celebrity or something.

Yes! Make me feel like royalty! Orion stood at the bottom of the stairs with his hands in his pockets.

It wasn’t until we were in the air that he told me we were going to Greece.

On that almost eleven-hour flight, we ate, talked, watched a movie, fucked, and slept. I officially became a member of the mile-high club. On our way to Greece, I prayed that whatever this was between us lasted forever because he ruined it for any man after him. Greece as a first date!