This is going to be a disaster.
But somehow, it wasn’t. At least…not right away.
For some reason I had been expecting Xander to greet us the second we stepped off the elevator. Or maybe have security waiting by my desk to escort me out. But neither of those things happened. Because that wasn’t how new bosses worked. His job was to go out and land big clients, not micromanage all of his employees.
In the short time that I’d worked for Bee, I’d only had a handful of face-to-face conversations with her. The same would probably be true with Xander.
I relaxed and got to work prepping for my noon meeting with a prospective client.
The first hour flew by. But then Chastity poked me.
“What?” I hissed. I had been in the zone.
“What do you think is going on?” she asked, pointing to Xander’s office. He was having a meeting with a guy that I vaguely recognized as being from one of the other marketing teams.
“It looks like a meeting to me.” I turned back to my notes, but Chastity kept talking.
“That’s the eighth meeting he’s had this morning. Each one lasts a few minutes and then they send the next person in.”
I watched for a second. Just as Chastity had said, the meeting ended after a minute. The guy walked out, tapped another person on the shoulder, and pointed to Xander’s office.
So much for not having any face-to-face conversations with the new boss.
I tried to get back to work, but I couldn’t focus. I kept looking up every five minutes to see how close I was to being summoned to his office. But there didn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to the order in which he was calling people.
“Should I apologize for molesting him?” I asked. That had been the question plaguing my mind ever since I’d face-planted his crotch.
“Definitely not. Just don’t bring it up.”
“But what if he brings it up?”
“He won’t.” She sounded so confident.
“Are you sure?”
“Yes. But if he does, just say you fell. And then give him a saucy wink.”
“A saucy wink?”What the hell is that?
“Yeah. You know. Like this.” Chastity bit her lip slightly and gave me a wink. It was a good thing that Madison was working on-site with a client today, because if she had been here to see that wink, she would have gotten a total lady boner.
“So like…this?” I bit my lip way too hard and scowled in pain.
“Uh, no.”
“Let me try again.” I did it again with a more appropriate amount of lip-biting.
“Better. But try to smile a little bit.”
I tried again. And again. And again. I wasso closeto getting it right. I could feel it. This next one was going to be perfect.
Just as I executed the perfect saucy wink, Chastity bent down to grab something off the floor. Which left a clear line of sight between me and Xander’s office. He locked eyes with me as I winked.
“Fuck!” I whisper-yelled. “Why did you duck?!”
“What?” asked Chastity, brushing off the pen she’d dropped.
“I just gave Xander the sauciest of winks.”
