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 mixedpany.


    “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’de 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 foring,” 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 thepany in Q1 and Q2.”


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    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 marketce–either with investments,


    products, acquisitions or business


    practices–makes me wonder what each of you have been doing thesest 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 bloodbathing.


    “I’ll make this simple,” Leah says. “In the same folder in front of you, you’ll see a severance check.” She


    nces 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 thispany, what would you rmend


    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 thispany.”


    Aaron grins at me, right before all hell breaks loose.