Mr Jerk (Billionaire Bossholes Book 2) by Leslie North

Author:Leslie North [North, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-17T16:00:00+00:00

21

NOAH

“I want you right here.” I pointed at the chair next to where I was setting up for the town hall.

“Are you sure? Don’t you want Jim or Danny there?” Maddy asked nervously, glancing around the room.

I appreciated my two top agents, but there was no need to keep them close during my monthly status check meeting. And I wanted my team to understand that Maddy Malone was more than an assistant. Without her, we wouldn’t have signed Garrison, and I was going to make a point of making sure everyone knew it. Having her seated off in a corner wouldn’t do.

“Absolutely not. This is the first town hall since you’ve come on board, and I want to set a standard for the way everyone views your role.”

Maddy shot me a triumphant smile, and it took everything in my power not to sweep her into my arms for a kiss.

Everyone started filing into the conference room, and I noticed a few raised eyebrows when they spotted Maddy at the head of the table beside me. It certainly wasn’t a position where I’d have put my assistant in the past. But no one questioned it. They knew better. Everything I did was calculated, so they all seemed to implicitly understand Maddy’s placement was intentional.

Everyone but Beckett Tate.

He strode in the door two minutes before I was set to begin and stopped in his tracks when he saw her.

“Well, well, look who’s joining the big boys!”

Renata Tailor, another junior agent, cleared her throat angrily.

“Was that anti-feminist of me?” Beckett laughed. “Sorry, Renata. But wow, Maddy. Look at you!”

It was just like Beckett to speak the subtext. He was a hard worker and an effective junior agent, but I’d always found him to be abrasive, a little too confident that his charm was enough to close deals. And I hated the way he was looking at Maddy. There was something knowing in the way he was watching her, and it made me irrationally angry.

“We’re starting, Beckett,” I said, letting my displeasure seep into my voice.

“Sorry, boss man! I was on the phone with Lincoln Jones, and that’s not the kind of guy you want to rush, am I right?”

I sighed. He’d been courting Lincoln for months with no movement, so I wasn’t impressed with the excuse.

Instead of grabbing a chair at the far end of the room Beckett sauntered behind the rest of the agents already seated at the table and pulled a chair up right next to Maddy. He had the gall to give me a “go ahead” nod as he popped open his laptop. I glanced at Maddy and noticed she was leaning slightly away from him, her gaze fixed on her fingers hovering over her keyboard.

I pressed on. “Thanks for being here folks. Before we get started, I wanted to take a few minutes to officially introduce our newest team member. Most of you have already met my new assistant Maddy Malone, but what you might not realize is what she’s done for PSM in the brief time she’s been here.

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