Page 6 of Big Bad Wolf: B.B.W
“Miss Marley! It’s been a while, pretty girl.” Jordan, one of the bouncers, greeted me. He’d been sweet on me since I started coming here. I came now maybe once every other week.
I shot him a flirty wink. “Hey, Jordan. You know I have to stay out of the way, so you’d miss me.” I strutted into his personal space. “Have you been a good boy, Jordan?”
My body leaned against his. I wasn’t a short female at five feet, eight inches, but he still towered over me. I felt his dick hardening close to my waist. His bottom lip went between his teeth as he gazed at me with hope.
“You know I’ve been a good boy.” He lowered his lips to my ear. “If you give a nigga a chance, I’ll be bad as fuck in that pussy.”
I cupped his cheeks in my hands to pull his ear down to my lips. “Oh, you have to be a lot more than bad to get this pussy, Jordan. You know that.”
He roared in laughter after I walked past him. He knew that this was only flirting. We had that conversation before. As I suspected, when I stepped into the lounge, eyes were on me. My co-workers waved me over to the section of booths that Orion must have reserved. My walk spoke for me. It saidI’m that bitch that you wish was yours.
“Hey, guys!” There were bottles and food on every table. “Looks like it’s a fun time.”
When I did my once over of the area, my irritation rose at the closeness of Sherrie to Orion in a booth. Her flat chested, water-bra ass was completely turned toward him. She was leaning into his space. Orion, on the other hand, was leaning away from her. His hand was wrapped around the drinking glass on the table, and his orbs were focused on me. I watched them start from my feet then move up to the top of my head.Yeah, he wants the kid!
My hand lifted to offer a shy wave, but my eyes probably unwittingly offered my pussy. He must have read my eyes because he patted Sherrie on her head with a smile then slid out of the booth.Did he really pat her on the head like a dog though?
“Miss Elodie, I’m happy that you decided to come. I’ve been waiting for you,” Orion admitted.
For a split second, I glanced at Sherrie, whose face looked like it was on fire. She downed a shot before she plopped back into the booth seat. My attention went back to Orion.
“Were you now? Tell me more about that.”
Days Earlier . . . Meeting with Sherrie . . .
Yep,I didn’t like this bitch. I wondered how she landed the position of branch manager. I wasn’t directly hands-on when it came to hiring branch employees. I had an agency in the states that I trusted with that. Sherrie had been the manager for a little over three years.
When I met her at the conference in Greece last year, I had questions. The conference was intended for all the managers of a branch, but she was the only one from her branch to attend. Each branch had four managers. There was branch, marketing, digital, and print marketing managers. Four people from her branch should have attended, but she claimed they all haddeclined the trip. At the time, I didn’t think anything about it, but other branch managers had a lot to whisper about. Who really turned down an all-expenses paid trip to Greece?
I had been in the states now for almost six months. This would be the first time that I showed my face in the Raleigh branch. The news that I’d moved to America was not widely known, which was intentional. I wanted to pop out and show fuckas that you never knew where I’d be. In the past six months, I had popped my ass up in Texas, California, and New York.
When I sent the email to Sherrie to let her know that I would be in the office for a visit, I knew she would do too much. She embarrassed herself when she was in Greece, or should I say her unseasoned pussy embarrassed her? I was not against adults doing adult shit, but there should be some discretion. Her ass ran around Greece with different associates, male and female, serving that unseasoned pussy like it was on last call discount. I didn’t fuck with her, but the talk was loud. It was so loud that I thought about implementing a no fraternizing policy.
My father was the marble that tipped the scale in the decision to not implement the policy. His stance was what would happen if my mate was an associate of the company. In order to be with her, I would have to fire her, quit myself, or break my own policy. I agreed with his stance, but I did stipulate within a policy that if any internal romantic relationships impeded on the job duties or success of a person that both individuals would be terminated.
When I showed up to the office, Sherrie was there with bells and pussy whistles on. The lunch was a nice touch, but I noticed that the associates seemed surprised by the lunch as if it wasn’t a monthly occurrence. All of my branches had company lunches once a month. There was a level of annoyance that I felt when I saw that it was Greek food that was ordered. I let that shit slide, but her attempts to tell me how to conduct my business wouldn’t cut it for me.
“Sherrie, the work of this branch has been amazing,” I told her once we were behind the privacy of her office doors. I sat in the chair in front of her desk. “You have a very strong team.”
She blushed as she leaned forward on her desk with her forearms. “Well, thank you so much. I’m really proud of the leadership that they have.”
“Yes, Elodie is an excellent leader.”
She could play that stupid shit all she wanted, but I wasn’t a fool. Eyes had been on the Raleigh branch for some time now, which was why I chose to move here. Sherrie’s competency had come into question.
“You had been trying to get that account that Elodie landed for almost two years now. What do you think was the factor that made them close with her?”
The smile that rested on Sherrie’s face a moment ago died quickly. “Oh, well, I’m not really sure. I guess I softened them up for her. I honestly wasn’t aware that she was pursuing their account. I’m ecstatic that it worked out in the firm’s favor.”
“Oh, okay. Interesting. As the branch manager, you should know that a report is submitted monthly to headquarters that indicates all account statuses. Elodie had the account listed for the last nine months. How did you miss that? Did you review the reports, Sherrie?” I asked her.
What she didn’t know was that I’d personally spoken to the multi-billion-dollar company of the account that Elodie landed. When I mentioned Sherrie’s name, they had no idea who she was. She had never reached out to the company. Elodie was the only communication that they had from Leventis International Marketing Firm. Sherrie sat there as if she could take any part of Elodie’s success.
“Ye-yes! I look at the reports. I must have overlooked it,” she retorted. “The bottom line is that she was able to land the account. Elodie is very persistent as you will find out the longeryou are here.” She let out an ingenuine giggle. “There have been times that I had to sit her down because she can get a little overzealous. That’s why I review her marketing strategies.”
I gave her a wordless nod. “Well, that won’t be a thing anymore. I will review all of her strategies going forward.”
I stood from my seat to walk around the massive office. When we opened our branches, we made sure that the branch manager’s office was one that they could damn near live in. There could be times that they spent more time in the office than they did at home. The offices had a full bathroom and lounge area. The lounge area had an oversized couch, a recliner, a wall-mounted television, and a fully stocked bar. All that was missing was the kitchen and bedroom.
