SWNOVELS Chapter 119
Chapter 119
When she enters the boardroom, her gaze raking over each
member present, I feel a jolt that travels through my body and straight to my dick.
It’s stupid.
I’ve had females chasing after me for as long as I can
remember.
Yet it’s this woman. Her willfulness and vulnerability that are like a Molotov Cocktail. She just has to enter the room and she
ignites something inside me.
I don’t address her as Alpha.
Not in this mixed company.
“Leah,” I say and walk toward her.
I kiss her cheek and she lets me. Then I extend my hand
indicating that she should move to the head of the table.
She does, taking her time to assess each person here.
It isn’t necessary. I know my girl. She’d come prepared, having researched about each of them before even proposing this
board meeting.
When she’s at the head of the table, she rests her hands on
the polished wood. She isn’t tall. But the white pants and pale blue blouse make her seem bigger.
“Thank you for coming,” she says.
She inclines her head at her brother who stands at the
entrance of the room. “Liam, if you wouldn’t mind...”
He hands out a folder to each board member, including me.
“Inside that folder, you’ll see a summary of your contributions to the company in Q1 and Q2.”
Several men at the table share a look.
Leah keeps talking, “You’ll also see our financial forecasting from the year prior and through today. The considerable drop in
revenue and inability to pivot in the marketplace–either with investments, products, acquisitions or business
practices–makes me wonder what each of you have been doing these last few years.”
She says it innocently enough, but I know my girl. She’s reeling
them in with her calm tone and innocent eyes. She looks too
sweet to eviscerate anyone.
But I sense a bloodbath coming.
“I’ll make this simple,” Leah says. “In the same folder in front of you, you’ll see a severance check.” She glances at each board
member. “Our stocks plummeted by 34%. But how many of you still took your holiday bonus? Come on now, show of hands?”
These older men and two women look around nervously.
“Aaron,” she addresses me. “As a majority shareholder of this company, what would you recommend for employees or board
members who put themselves ahead of the good of this
corporation?”
“I think you know my answer.”
Leah smiles. “If you took a bonus while our stocks were plummeting, consider that your severance pay. You can leave. You will
be removed from your position.”
“Now, just one minute!” one of the old white men sputters.
“What do you need a minute for?” Leah asks calmly. “You’re fired. Get out before I have our attorneys sue you for gross
negligence and mismanagement of this company.”
Aaron grins at me, right before all hell breaks loose.