Page 3 of As a Last Resort
I gathered my folio and stood.My assistant, Ivy, snatched it from me and said under her breath, “He’s such a jerk.”
“Which one?”I asked.She smirked.
I walked past Glenn and Robby still cuddled up together on my way out.
“Samantha,” Glenn called out to me.“Stick with this kid here.You could learn a thing or two from him.”
“Of course, sir.I wouldn’t miss an opportunity to learn from the best.”I gritted my teeth so hard I’m surprised they didn’t crack.
Robby flashed his pearly whites in my direction.I tried to wink at him, but he looked at me like I had a baby dragon protruding from my neck.For some reason, my wink didn’t land as seamlessly as his did.
Winking’s a lot easier in theory.
“See you at O’Keefe’s, Leigh?”he called on my way out.
“Absolutely.”
I shut my office door thirty seconds later with Ivy hot on my feet.“Absolutely not.”
“I don’t need to tell you that you’re going.Puggle will be there.”
One of Ivy’s oddly impressive talents was her plethora of canine nicknames for Robby.I couldn’t recall the last time she used his real first name behind a closed door.And yes, I was aware he would be there.
I also knew Glenn was going to be looking for me to check off the team player box.But Jack finally texted me back during the meeting and I felt like trying to see him to clear the air was the right thing to do.
She sat on the tiny couch in my office.“Learn from the best.That was good, by the way.”
“Bile was literally crawling up my throat by the end of that sentence.”
“Could’ve fooled me.”
“I really can’t tonight though.I walked out on Jack last night at dinner and didn’t even say goodbye.He’s only responded to one of my texts since.”
“Check in with JackafterO’Keefe’s.Just one drink.You can show Glenn you can be just as personable and charming as his little Pugsworth.”
I sighed.“Jack broke up with me.”I turned my phone around so she could read the text that came in during the meeting.
JACK:Yes.I broke up with you.
And the fact you’re texting me this should confirm why.
“Yikes.”
“He’s upset that he was trying to break up with me and I wasn’t listening.I was distracted by Robby’s text, asking me to change the offer price last night.”
“So you left dinner…”
“To fix Robby’s enlightened stroke of genius, which was being bound at the printers,” I answered.“But when I got to the printers they had already finished and we needed to reprint the entire proposal.”
“All one hundred pages of it?”
“Apparently, it was just easier to print the entire file because the offer price was listed on quite a few of the pages.But then after it was bound, Robby asked if I’d just drop it off at the courier’s since they were still open so they’d get it first thing this morning.It was right by my apartment anyway, so…”
“Of course, you did.”
“And then I forgot to go back.”
“You forgot to go back.”
