She wore a headset over one of those sleek corporate ponytails. Her mascaraed eyes swept over the oddly casual woman standing before the main front desk as if some wild animal from the zoo had entered her building. The woman was asking to see Owen Hart. The Owen Hart? The CEO?
She was trippin’ if she thought she was gonna just waltz in here and see the CEO. “Give me just one second here.” She picked up a phone call while she tapped at the keyboard and stared at her monitor. “Thank you for calling Tac Industries, my name is Bridgette, may I place you on a brief hold? Thank you so much. Hold on.”
She picked up a couple more calls while she made it look as if she was checking Mr. Hart’s schedule. She was actually checking Renton Bell’s schedule. Maybe she could pawn this woman off on Mr. Hart’s snappy executive assistant.
Yep. That’s what she would do.
She tried to look sympathetic, “Mr. Hart has a full schedule today.” He always did and there were never scrubby women in jeans and t-shirts on his schedule. “I’m going to call his executive assistant, Mr. Bell. Maybe he can do something for you today?”
She dialed Renton’s extension and when he picked up she said, “I have a Julianna here for Mr. Hart? Can you come -”
A pang of guilt surged through him. “I’ll be right there,” Renton interrupted and abruptly hung up the line.
“Thank youuu,” she cooed as if Renton was still on the line. “Mr. Bell will be here in just a minute. You can wait over there.” She pointed to a lounge area where other corporate types were waiting on meetings and the like. Bridgette was excusing Julianna from the front of her desk.
Renton paced around in his office for a few moments. Owen was in a meeting. Should he interrupt and tell him? Should he just bring Julianna back? Should he try to chase her away?
All week all he’d gotten out of Owen about Julianna were words like ‘go file something, Renton’ and ‘don’t you have something better to think about than my love life?’ and ‘book me for Dubai in three weeks.’ He knew his boss had closed the book on bargirl but he didn’t know why and he didn’t know how to talk to Julianna about it. Especially not when his friendship with her had only been innocuous texts so far.
Welp, he had to deal with it.
Renton smoothed his hand over the black tie he wore with delicate horizontal stripes in pink. He had this patterned tie paired boldly with a light blue vertical striped button up. It was all tied together, of course, by his sleekly tailored suit jacket and slacks. If his clothes could endow him with the competence necessary to handle the current social snafu he’d been put in, then he was certainly wearing the outfit for it.
He appeared through the glass double doors that led to the rest of the executive office suites. “Julianna.” He called and held the door open for her, signaling for her to come with him. He was smiling warmly at Julianna and completely ignoring the shocked looking receptionist.
Once he’d shut the door on the lobby they were left in that kind of creepy silence that settles in office buildings. The too-over air conditioned space in which people didn’t feel the need to raise their voices above a whisper in the halls. Louder voices could be heard taking calls, or engaging in meetings behind closed doors that lined the halls. But in the hall, it was quiet.
Renton’s voice was soft when he spoke, he reached out and squeezed her wrist affectionately, “It’s good to see you. What a surprise.” He cooed, avoiding the obvious topic of why she was there. He led her into an empty conference room and closed the door behind her. “So,” he asked, as he assumed a position of leaning against the conference room table with his hands in his pockets, “is he expecting you?” He knew the answer but he needed to hear it from her. He was expecting a sort of explanation that would clue him in on how to handle the situation.
She was trippin’ if she thought she was gonna just waltz in here and see the CEO. “Give me just one second here.” She picked up a phone call while she tapped at the keyboard and stared at her monitor. “Thank you for calling Tac Industries, my name is Bridgette, may I place you on a brief hold? Thank you so much. Hold on.”
She picked up a couple more calls while she made it look as if she was checking Mr. Hart’s schedule. She was actually checking Renton Bell’s schedule. Maybe she could pawn this woman off on Mr. Hart’s snappy executive assistant.
Yep. That’s what she would do.
She tried to look sympathetic, “Mr. Hart has a full schedule today.” He always did and there were never scrubby women in jeans and t-shirts on his schedule. “I’m going to call his executive assistant, Mr. Bell. Maybe he can do something for you today?”
She dialed Renton’s extension and when he picked up she said, “I have a Julianna here for Mr. Hart? Can you come -”
A pang of guilt surged through him. “I’ll be right there,” Renton interrupted and abruptly hung up the line.
“Thank youuu,” she cooed as if Renton was still on the line. “Mr. Bell will be here in just a minute. You can wait over there.” She pointed to a lounge area where other corporate types were waiting on meetings and the like. Bridgette was excusing Julianna from the front of her desk.
Renton paced around in his office for a few moments. Owen was in a meeting. Should he interrupt and tell him? Should he just bring Julianna back? Should he try to chase her away?
All week all he’d gotten out of Owen about Julianna were words like ‘go file something, Renton’ and ‘don’t you have something better to think about than my love life?’ and ‘book me for Dubai in three weeks.’ He knew his boss had closed the book on bargirl but he didn’t know why and he didn’t know how to talk to Julianna about it. Especially not when his friendship with her had only been innocuous texts so far.
Welp, he had to deal with it.
Renton smoothed his hand over the black tie he wore with delicate horizontal stripes in pink. He had this patterned tie paired boldly with a light blue vertical striped button up. It was all tied together, of course, by his sleekly tailored suit jacket and slacks. If his clothes could endow him with the competence necessary to handle the current social snafu he’d been put in, then he was certainly wearing the outfit for it.
He appeared through the glass double doors that led to the rest of the executive office suites. “Julianna.” He called and held the door open for her, signaling for her to come with him. He was smiling warmly at Julianna and completely ignoring the shocked looking receptionist.
Once he’d shut the door on the lobby they were left in that kind of creepy silence that settles in office buildings. The too-over air conditioned space in which people didn’t feel the need to raise their voices above a whisper in the halls. Louder voices could be heard taking calls, or engaging in meetings behind closed doors that lined the halls. But in the hall, it was quiet.
Renton’s voice was soft when he spoke, he reached out and squeezed her wrist affectionately, “It’s good to see you. What a surprise.” He cooed, avoiding the obvious topic of why she was there. He led her into an empty conference room and closed the door behind her. “So,” he asked, as he assumed a position of leaning against the conference room table with his hands in his pockets, “is he expecting you?” He knew the answer but he needed to hear it from her. He was expecting a sort of explanation that would clue him in on how to handle the situation.
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