Consent_A #MeToo Romance by Jason Letts

Author:Jason Letts [Letts, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2018-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

I pulled up a chair and sat as close to Keenan as I could. He seemed to be trying to keep still, but his hand was shaking slightly. I couldn’t even imagine what was going through his mind.

“Do you want to tell me what happened?”

“I wrote everyone an email saying we’re done. Didn’t you get it?” He wasn’t angry, but he looked plenty shell-shocked. Whatever went down in Vegas, it had to be traumatic. I looked down at my feet.

“No, I didn’t get it. While you were gone, Martin found a way to cancel my contract. Before I even left the building all of my accounts were closed,” I said, looking up to gauge his reaction.

“Oh,” Keenan said, not demonstrating any emotion over what had happened to me. Maybe he thought it didn’t matter since Mouse Roar was done for anyway, or he might’ve been hurting too badly to empathize. From the dazed look on his face he didn’t seem to be hearing what I said that well.

“What makes you say the company is finished?” I asked slowly. He didn’t answer immediately, and I wondered if I’d have to sit there all morning to get it out of him, but he slowly leaned forward, an elbow against the table, and nodded at me. His beautiful green eyes were as big as saucers.

“You know Connoisaurus? They announced they’re opening up a boutique digital marketing arm. They’re taking everything they learned from me and they’re going to sell it to everyone else. I wasn’t in denial that they wanted all the money out there, but I just never imagined they’d be coming after mine so soon,” he said.

I pursed my lips, trying to nonverbally tell him I was there for him. It was hard to know what to say when I didn’t have a firm grasp on what this all meant.

“So we lost our biggest client. There have to be others…”

“They’re all gone. Laddie’s, Marta Incorporated, Yodelo. There weren’t that many to begin with. We were mostly just catering to large conglomerates. Connoisaurus went behind our backs and convinced them all to sign over. That’s how deep they were in our operation. They knew everyone we were working with and took them all. We literally don’t have a reason to push a button here,” he said.

I was taken aback and the full breadth of what had happened was finally hitting me. It really was all gone.

“Why would they do that to you?” I asked. A sad grin spread across his face.

“They don’t care about me.”

We sat in silence for a while. I was trying to think about why they did that and what we could do about it. Keenan was too stunned to move. I’d wanted more alone time with him, but not like this. It was strange looking at him in this defeated state. I couldn’t believe it was really him. Even despite this terrible blow, he wasn’t acting like how I’d imagined he would. Deep down I had a sense that he wasn’t the type to lie down like this, but it was going to take some help.

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