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“I don’t think I’m comfortable dating the guy that got me fired. How many times did I tell you this was a bad idea?” I wanted to slide down the wall and bawl. I tried to warn him for weeks. I couldn’t help from taking as much as I did from him. I really needed to be away from him. Days of telling him this was risky were ignored. He didn’t listen to me the entire time. He ignored me over and over again. I know I was at fault here, too, but he could have donemore.He says he would change the world for me but nothing is different. Other than my lack of job.
His face fell. “What?”
“I don’t want to date you as long as you work there. No convincing me in the bedroom bullshit. Your dad’s company or me.The end. And I will be your best assistant, but I’m not fucking you. Now get out of my apartment.”
This time I was serious. This time I would stay true to my word. No more waffling cause Cal was hot.
Chapter 49
Cal
Running on the treadmill at the gym felt like a good idea. The look on Jordan’s face as she told me to get the fuck out shattered me. Over the last few weeks, I knew without a doubt that Jordan was the woman for the rest of my life. Do I disappoint my dad again by leaving the company? After ten years of disappointing my dad, I wanted to make him proud. I wanted to show him I could take his company to better places. Except I couldn’t do this without Jordan.
My father wasn’t listening to me about the Mr. Lyons situation, even with all the emails Alana was dealing with. More and more of the women that I spoke to over the last few weeks were coming out to say what he had done to them. The alerts on my phone were blowing up as more stories were coming to light. More of these women were talking to the media when they were being ignored by the company. Jessica was busy whispering in my father’s ear about how I wasn’t a good fit for the company. Would they ever respect me at his company? This would always be much harder. Yet I had another company that I could pour my heart into with a partner that respected me. He didn’t wantto deal with the people part of the company. He just wanted to deal with his tech.
My phone rang, and I stopped my music and answered it.
“Are we keeping Jordan?” Brian asked. No greetings. I could already tell what sort of mood he was in.
“What?”
“She was fired from your job. We weren’t officially paying her. Or I don’t think we have been. She hasn’t sent me paperwork yet. Or wasn’t that your job? Or her job? I’m confused. Why didn’t we hire a Jordan earlier? She’s amazing. She has good ideas. I’ve had her get on calls with people and she wooed them. She shouldn’t even just be an assistant. You better not break up with her.”
“She broke up with me, I guess. She said I had to make a choice.”
“Plus her idea about my own assistant! And they’re amazing! Why didn’t we do this before? I’ve been able to work for the first time in months. Likeactualwork.”
“Move here, Brian.”
I stopped the treadmill as a pregnant pause greeted me. “Move to the boonies?”
“It’s not bad. And Donovan is here.”
“Donovan has been really pushing me to move there for a while, but it’s been worse the last few days. I don’t want to move there if you are just going to run off with daddy. You don’t need his business. You don’t need to be the wunderkind of that business. We have a good thing going.It’s getting ready to be better than it ever has been. I can’t do it by myself. Not even Jordan and James can help me do it alone. I’ve been struggling with this for months since you moved. Even across the world, you did better at helping me than right now. We can make this a good business. Hell, we’ve made more money recently than I ever dreamed when we started this. But you’re not here.”
“Where did that come from?”
“James told me I should tell you the truth about how I feel.”
“Is James your therapist now?”
“James is right. I’m unhappy. Jordan is pissed. I’ll move only if you go full time. We can take this to amazing placestogether.”
Brian hung up, and I was stuck standing on the treadmill. What was I going to do? Brian had a point. Jordan had a point. Why was everyone right except for me? If I stayed with my father’s company, even though Jordan and I had been having sex, it was favoritism. He wouldn’t fire Mr. Lyons even when I told him what I witnessed. Protect the company, his friends and his image, not his employees.
What was I going to do?
Chapter 50
Jordan
Jaime and I were sitting at the coffee shop looking at different office spaces. We hadn’t convinced Brian yet to move, but I wanted to be prepared. Plus, I was bored. I didn’t want to fill out apps for other jobs, hoping Cal would make the right choice.
Jaime pushed her screen toward me. “Look at this one. We could convert it to living quarters at the top. Lots of space for expanding. We could get a special key to access the top floor.”
“I’ll look for one that can do that.”
“I actually know someone through a relative that has done jobs like this in the big city. I could talk to him. Especially if money isn’t a problem.”
