Barefoot Bay: Trouble in Paradise (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Fiona Roarke

Author:Fiona Roarke [Roarke, Fiona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2016-04-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Three months later – Wakeman’s department store, Miami

“I want to talk to you about Samantha,” came a familiar voice from beyond the open door. Samantha stopped cold at the fury in the speaker’s tone. And it seemed to be directed at her. Why?

Instead of entering, she pressed her shoulder against the wall of the company library, next to the alternate door of the conference room she’d just left. The weekly Wednesday meeting had finished five minutes ago. Apparently, it hadn’t gone as well as she’d thought.

She’d forgotten to grab a bottle of water to take back to her office. Doubling back through the library instead of using the main hallway had been fortuitous, since it gave her some warning when she heard her name spoken with such venom.

Two people from the meeting she’d left a bit ago were inside and now talking, not whispering, as she listened in.

“How much longer is this farce with Samantha going to go on, Trey?” The speaker was Drew Young, the Director of Sales. Drew was essentially Trey’s best friend, both at the store and outside of it. It was out and out cronyism, as far as she was concerned.

Trey used his placating voice. “Calm down, Drew. It won’t be too much longer.” He’d used that tone of voice on her a lot lately. She would tell him to do something, he wouldn’t do it and they’d repeat the conversation until she wanted to scream to the rafters in fury. But he was the boss’s son. Eventually, he’d take over as supreme leader, as he joked often, and she needed to be prepared for that instance.

She learned quickly not to expect him to do anything. She never depended on him and typically always did whatever needed to be done herself.

“What are you waiting for?” Drew persisted.

“Chill, dude. I’m waiting for her to get over…” terse mumbling ensued, “…before we sent her here. Then I can proceed. Once the question of…” Trey must have lowered his tone again because she didn’t hear what the question was. “…is settled, then we can proceed with the original plan. She’ll be out…” more muffled speech, “…and you’ll be the new VP of Operations for the Miami office.”

Samantha’s mouth dropped open. She wanted to screech in denial. She was the VP of Operations for the Miami office. Why did they want her out? What was going to happen to make her lose this job? What were they waiting for? What was she supposed to get over? She leaned closer, trying to hear the rest of what they said when they lowered their voices, but unless she entered the room, it wasn’t happening.

“Three months is plenty long enough,” Drew said. “I’m tired of waiting. You have a week, or else…”

Samantha didn’t hear the rest of Drew’s angry demand. What the hell was going on?

“Relax, Drew. Everything will fall into place in the next two weeks or so. Don’t fuck this up for me. And do not ever threaten me with ultimatums.

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