Bloom (The Kaleidoscope Album Book 4) by Oakley Bryce

Author:Oakley, Bryce [Oakley, Bryce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-06T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Collins

Collins stared at the closed door Meg had just stormed through.

As everyone else left the conference room, Collins stayed behind and rested her head in her hands and closed her tired eyes. Working with Meg was going to be so much more difficult than she had hoped.

She needed them to be able to keep a very compartmentalized relationship. Couldn’t Meg understand that she would never be able to go with an idea just because she liked the person who suggested it? No, Meg was definitely being selfish.

Collins couldn’t see Meg trying to use their relationship in some untoward way, but it still didn’t sit right that she didn’t trust Collins’ vision.

“That was a lot,” Micah said from Collins’ left.

“Sure was,” Collins said without opening her eyes.

“I thought you said you got Meg’s buy-in. Did you not listen when I told you that Meg was the glue? Did you not listen to a single fucking word I said? This is messy and I don’t like messy. Meg is the one they’ll rally around and you need to treat her with the importance she deserves,” Micah continued, going off on a tirade that Collins felt was entirely unnecessary.

Collins sat up straight and opened her eyes, pinning Micah with a glare. She slammed her hands down onto the table hard to punctuate her point. She heard a clutter to her right but couldn’t focus on anything other than putting Micah in her place.

“Believe me, Micah, I understand perfectly well how important Meg is to The Shrikes. Maybe even better than you do. Don’t presume to tell me that I’m not valuing Meg just because we don’t see eye-to-eye on every single issue,” Collins said in a calm and measured tone, trying to contain her anger.

Micah looked Collins up and down with a measured look.

“Alright. Just don’t forget what I said. She’s important. I trust you’ll fix this?” Micah asked.

“I’ll do my best to fix it,” Collins said, walking out of the room.

Collins knew that she and Meg needed to come to some sort of an understanding. She knew that they would probably both need to compromise at least a little bit in order to move forward.

She tried to remind herself that it was a good thing that Meg was so passionate about her work. It didn’t make it any less annoying, but it did help to keep that in mind.

After about an hour of returning phone calls and emails in order to avoid Meg so she could cool off, Colins figured enough time had passed for her to try to set things right.

As expected, she found Meg sitting at her drum set. Headphones on, her drumsticks flying through the air in a flurry of angry movements.

Collins smiled to herself as she thought Meg must be playing her feelings.

She walked into Meg’s line of sight and waited for her to notice and acknowledge her.

“Hey,” Meg said as she took off her headphones.

“Hey,” said Collins, nervously putting her hands in her pockets and rocking back on her heels.

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