Page 204 of Money Reigns
My heart jolts, wild and stupid.Olivia.
I shove upright, hope pounding in my chest.
The light clicks on.
Not her.
“Damn,” Wilder says with a chuckle, taking in the scene. “This is what you’re doing?”
“Go away, Wilder.” My voice is raw, sharper than I mean it to be.
He steps further in, rolling his eyes. “I just got back from Cali. Went to the office. Heard you haven’t been in for a week. What’s going on? This still about Livvy?”
“Don’t call her that.”
Wilder snorts. “Oh, for fuck’s sake. Get the fuck up and go get her.”
I scoff, sinking back against the couch. “I don’t even know where she is.”
“Yeah, you do.” He smirks, all sharp edges. “She’s back home.”
I sit up, pulse hammering. “She’shome?”
“Not here, dumbass. Back home. In her little podunk life.”
The glass flies from my hand before I think. Wilder ducks, and it smashes against the wall.
“Shards scatter across the hardwood, glittering.
“Throw shit at me again, War, and I’ll kick your ass.”
I laugh, bitter. “You’d only win because I’ve been drinking.”
Wilder digs in his jacket pocket, pulls out a folded sheet of paper, and tosses it onto the coffee table. “She gave her resignation. She’s not coming back.”
I snatch it up, scanning fast. Professional. Clean. Final.
Gone.
“No,” I growl. “I’m not accepting it.”
“She didn’t send it to you,” Wilder says easily. “She sent it to me.”
I freeze. “Why the fuck would she send it to you? She works for me.”
“Maybe because you wouldn’t accept it. And if she sent it to Wes, he’d have asked you first, and you still wouldn’t accept it.Me?Technically also her boss. She knew I’d approve it.”
Fury rips through me. I surge to my feet, fists clenched. “You didn’t.”
“Oh, but I did.” Wilder’s smirk is razor-sharp. “Let her go. You’re not good enough for her anyway.”
Red clouds my vision. I lunge.
We crash to the floor, fists flying, grunts filling the penthouse. A jab to his ribs, his elbow digging into my shoulder, my knuckles cracking against his jaw.
“You had no right!” I snarl, teeth bared.
Wilder laughs, grappling, stronger than he looks. “I don’t know what you did, but she deserves better.”
