The Fearless King (The Kings #2) by Katee Robert

Author:Katee Robert [Robert, Katee]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Contemporary, Women, Suspense, Romance, Fiction, Sagas, Family Life, Multicultural & Interracial, General
ISBN: 9781455597147
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2019-02-05T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Journey lost herself in the methodical motions of measuring and cooking. She got chicken marinating in the fridge and chopped the veggies to roast. Since Frank still wasn’t downstairs by the time she finished prepping for dinner, she whipped up a batch of her brownies and slid them into the oven just in time to take the scheduled conference call. She got the laptop going and keyed in her information to start the call and then threw the bowl and utensils in the sink while she waited for the other two participants to connect.

Ronnie arrived first. She blinked into the camera, her close-cropped black hair making her dark eyes seem even larger on her face than they actually were. “Where are you? Anderson said you had to take an emergency trip, but he didn’t deign to drop any other details.”

“That’s because it’s none of your business, snoop.” She laughed, sliding into her workplace persona with ease. It helped that she liked Ronnie. The woman ran the tech department for the company, and she had earned the position at a younger age than anyone else in Kingdom Corp history.

Ronnie didn’t get a chance to reply before George appeared in a third video, his expression as dour as ever. “Ladies.”

“George,” Journey answered for both of them, which was just as well. If Ronnie and George could manage to spend more than two seconds in the same space without sniping at each other, this call wouldn’t be necessary in the first place. “Why don’t we get right into the thick of it? What’s the problem this time?”

“Ronnie’s department is over budget this quarter—again.” A pleased glint appeared in his blue eyes, which didn’t bode well. “Seeing as how that’s the third quarter in a row, Mr. Bancroft has given me permission to lay off ten people within the department.”

“You can fuck right off with that noise, George!”

“Ronnie, enough.” Journey inflected steel into her tone, and the other woman went silent, though she obviously wasn’t happy about it. Fine. She could be pissed. Journey was pretty fucking pissed right now, too. She stared hard at George. “You know as well as I do that all layoff orders come from me. Not from Elliott. He’s not the CEO, no matter what he’s acting like at the moment, so you might want to wipe that smug look off your face, George.”

“If that bastard lays off one of my people, we all walk. See how he likes that,” Ronnie snarled.

She could actually see the framework that held Kingdom Corp together shaking. This would be the first casualty when the wave broke, but it wouldn’t be the last. Elliott might have the power, but he obviously didn’t know shit about running this company or he wouldn’t have played things like this.

Unless he wants it to explode so he can blame me for it.

She had held her anger at a slow boil since getting the call about Frank, but it ratcheted up several degrees in response to her suspicion.

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