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I sputtered like a chastised child. “I wasn’t thinking.”
“Obviously!” Sue said. “You made Bobbycry?” I dropped my elbow onto my desk with a thump and pressed my thumb and forefinger into my temple.
“I didn’t know he would cry! I didn’t mean to. I’ve just been so caught up in this merger shit. I’ve been neglecting him, and he’s been so damn patient with me. Then here I go taking my frustrations out on him, treating him like he’s beneath me. The same way I used to with all my other employees. I was so wrong. He deserves better than that.”
Latrice narrowed her eyes at me. “You’d better tell him the exact things you’re telling us.”
“I know. I will, whenever he talks to me again.”
Sue added, “Ifhe ever talks to you again.”
If. The word hung over my head like a funnel cloud, threatening to drop down into a tornado and sweep me up in it.
“I’m sure it’s not an ‘if,’ Sue,” Latrice said softly, but her eyes burned when she looked at me. “You damn sure better beg, though.”
“Oh, I will. Believe me, I will.”
I’d just made a huge mistake with the love of my life. Now, how did I fix it?
8
VICTOR
After twenty-four hoursof no Bobby, I was clawing the furniture. He hadn’t returned my calls, and when I drove past his house, or rather, had my driver go past his apartment building so I could stare like a creeper, he wasn’t home.
“So this is love,” I mumbled as I eyed the front of Bobby’s building through my tinted windows, looking for any sign of him. “Turning me into a fool. If I’m being honest about it, I wouldn’t have it any other way. Bobby wouldn’t be the one for me if he didn’t tell me exactly where to get off.” My driver met my eyes through the rearview mirror. He knew how big of a deal it was for someone, anyone, to stand up to me for being a feral beast, and not in a fun, sexy kind of way.
I continued. “He sure showed me. Our love is so new, so fresh. I can’t let this happen to us already.” My driver, who nodded to me through the rearview mirror, trying to keep the judgy expression off his face. Even he knew I messed up. “In a way, I’m glad this happened early in our relationship. I learned my lesson. I’ll never neglect or talk down to him again.”
There was caution in my driver’s voice, but he asked me anyway. “Are you going to tell him all of this, Sir?”
I chuckled. “Damn right, I am. I just need him to give me a chance to explain myself and make it up to him. I can’t have this being a stain on the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me.”
The next morning, Bobby wasn’t at work. Again.
“Called out sick,” Latrice told me, lifting an accusatory eyebrow at me.
“How am I supposed to make it through the day without him?” Not only was I heartsick, but so much of our day-to-day operations depended on my mate being there with me, working with me as a partner, not just an assistant. As my equal, as an invaluable member of my team. Just more proof of how special my mate was, and how much he’d fit right into every part of my life. He was the perfect fit, and I had to make things right with him. Luckily, I had a plan.
“Get him to come to the office,” I told Latrice. “I don’t care what you have to do, just get him back.”
At the end of the day, I knew Latrice had figured something out because a buzz started across the whole floor as my employees started tittering and gossiping. Soon, a familiar scent wafted in, a scent I’d recognize anywhere. I stood up from my chair.
Bobby.
His voice resonated through the office. He was mad now, and he didn’t care who heard about it.
“I read that entire file back to front, Sue. I didn’t see anything about a bonus. I’ll tell you one thing, I deserve it for putting up with that ogre of a lion. There better be a lot of zeroes on this check.” He rounded the corner and there I was.
Bobby skidded to a stop, giving me a death glare. “You.” The good news was, although the glare had a little extra fire I didn’t recognize, I still saw the love and vulnerability there. This could be fixed with the right amount of groveling.
I smiled gently and nodded along. “Me.”
He crossed his arms in that sassy way of his I loved. Even though I was suffering, I loved that even now he wasn’t putting up with my shit.
“Were you going to personally hand me my bonus check? Because that’s literally the only reason I want to see you right now.”
“Bobby, if you want a check, you can have that, too.” He poked out a hip and held out his hand. I chuckled. He was being the omega I loved, one hundred percent. “Just, please, give me five minutes.”
