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Now I could focus on getting everything ready for my new job, and on Monday, I would meet my new boss.
I’d heard that he was an ass, but that had never scared me before. I was good at dealing with men who loved measuring dicks and believed the rest of the world was beneath them. It just took a bit of convincing I was as good as any other guy in the office, and then things went smoothly. He may have had the reputation of being an ass, but if there was one thing I was good at, it was kicking ass.
3
TROY
Mr. Larson,
I’m new on the team here at Griffin Solutions, and since we’re going to be working together, Mr. Stein asked me to reach out and make it happen. What about a beer and a brainstorming session so we can get the ball rolling? I’m planning big things.
Regards,
Mack Frye
Ihadtoreadthe name he ended the email with twice before I burst out laughing.
“What?” Scott asked.
“This guy’s name is Mack. Mack Frye.”
“As in, McFry?”
“Right?” I scoffed.
Scott chuckled, but his laughter faded when he turned his attention back to his article.
“I’m going to have to work with this clown for the next couple of months and this is how we start,” I said.
“What contract are you working on?” Scott asked absently.
“The one with Griffin.”
Scott glanced up from his article from where he sat on the couch in front of my larger-than-life television. “I thought you hated Griffin.”
“Yeah, I do,” I said. Griffin Solutions was a marketing and communications company with a bulletproof reputation, and they’d been a thorn in my side for a long time. Larson Inc, the company I’d started from scratch, was much better in name, reputation, and value, but Griffin didn’t want to accept that. Sebastian Stein was an ass, to say the least.
“Why work with them, then?”
“It’s this stupid campaign I’m working on with Elecoms."
“The company with the fucked-up name,” Scott said, nodding.
“Yeah… I think they were going for elegant communications and squashed it together, but it failed. Johnson always tries to be innovative, but he’s just tacky.”
“Big time,” Scott said with a laugh. “Wasn’t that girl you got last weekend from Griffin?”
I shrugged. “Yeah, I think so.”
“You didn’t see her again?”
“Tough when she sneaks out without leaving her number.” I was still sour about that. We’d had such a good connection, and when I’d woken up, she was gone.
“Don’t you prefer it when you walk away?” Scott asked. “I didn’t take you for someone withfeelings.”
“Fuck off,” I said with a scowl. “I just want to be the one to walk away.” Yeah, yeah, so it had been an ego thing. I wanted to be the one to call the shots, but it wasn’t just about that. If I didn’t give a shit about what we’d shared that night, I would have been fine with the whole thing. Waking up to an empty bed was a hell of a lot better than having to explain to them that it just wasn’t going to work out, I wouldn’t call, we wouldn’t see each other again…
I just wanted to see her again. If she’d left me her number, I would have called for a change.
