“For now. But if you find out that they’re not…”
“Yeah, yeah. Tanner will be yours.”
“Shhh,” said Madison. She pointed to the elevator. Bee had just walked off. Even though she was probably the nicest boss in the world, it still wouldn’t have been ideal for her to hear us discussing which of us would get to sleep with our new client. And Mason probably wouldn’t like it either. Every time I saw him, all I could think about was Matt screaming as his pants caught fire. Chastity had assured me that Mason’s little brother never came to the offices, but if he did show up, I was fully prepared to jump out the window. Actually, maybe it was time to activate my window-escape now, because Mason looked absolutelypissedabout something. Oh my God, what if he’d just found out that they accidentally hired the girl that set his brother’s dick on fire! He was about to fire me for sure.
Chastity and Madison both immediately started shuffling papers and pretending to work.
“What thefuckdid you three do?” asked Mason. Smoke was practically coming out of his ears.
My answer would have been, “Landed you your biggest client ever,” but something told me that it was better to stay silent.
“Tanner shredded the contract. He’s out.”
“Out?” asked Chastity. “But we have a meeting with him at three about his winery.”
“Not anymore. I’ve been trying to get him to come in for months. And he finally did. It was a sure thing. How the hell did you three mess this up? I knew I should have put Garrett on this instead.”
“But…” started Chastity.
“But nothing. If he’s not our client on Monday morning, then all three of you are fired.” He turned and stormed off. Bee mouthed, “I’m sorry,” and then followed Mason to the elevator.
“What were you saying about having this contract locked up?” asked Madison.
Chastity stared daggers at me. “What the hell, Ash?”
“Don’t look at me. I did my best. Our first presentation was dynamite.”
“Not the presentation. I mean what did you do last night? To Tanner. It sure seems like you did something awful. When you say you touched his penis…do you really mean that you kicked him square in the nuts?”
“I won’t blame you if you did,” added Madison. “He surely had it coming.”
“No! We were having a super-hot kiss. We even broke a shelf in the heat of the moment.” I paused and squeezed my legstogether. Best first kiss ever? Yes. Although my only frame of reference was my first kiss with Joe. His Natty-Ice-scented breath and the stench of dirty laundry from his frat house still haunted my dreams.
“What exactly did he say when he stopped kissing you?” asked Chastity.
“He just uh…apologized I think. I don’t know. It all happened so fast. But he’s definitely not mad at me. Otherwise he wouldn’t have sent me all those Odegaards this morning. And given me this note.” I reached in my purse to grab the note. That was when I noticed the alert on my phone. From the Society app. Well, technically it was labeledTax Codes, but that was just the disguise for the Society app. I pulled out my phone.
“That’s not a note,” said Chastity.
“I know. But I got something from the Society. Maybe it’s about him.”
“It’s probably your post-date evaluation.”
“Right.” It still freaked me out that Chastity knew all the Society rules and procedures so well. I clicked on the notification and the screen turned black. The Society logo was at the top and then, in plain white text, it read:
Raven Black,
Your membership in the Society has been terminated for a violation of clause 49c.
Sincerely,
The Society
“What the hell?” I muttered.What’s clause 49c?
“What?” asked Chastity and Madison.
I handed them my phone.
