Fated Risk || Completed

Chapter 5 || Our Sence Of Relief

Sophia.

    I'm frustrated. Actually, the better way to word it is I'm fucked pissed. And now as I stare at the same contract that Maddox has redone eleven times sitting in my email, again, I know I'm going to have a headache. Not just a normal headache, but the pounding kind. What's worse is that I now must tell Maddox's that his effort's for this contract to get finalized have failed, again. Even bring up the name Christian brings a scowl onto his face. Just the mention of him and those pale eyes start to turn stormy with hurricanes in them.

    Which I understand. With the amount of effort his putting into this deal, it would frustrate the fuck out of me if the owner was just dragging it out for no good reason. And he really is at this point because in the same email that the contract came back in, he wrote 'Re-advise on the structure of the financial department. Perhaps there's a better way of restructuring?'

    I for one know that Maddox does not plan to restructure shit. The second this contract is signed, and the money is wired, the departments are getting shut down. We aren't obligated to keep the contract alive, not after the company becomes ours. The only reason we are accommodating to this unreasonable man is because without a contract he likes, he wouldn't sell to us. And for some reason Maddox, and Mateo are hell bent on getting this company into their hands.

    I printed the contract, noting all the little scribbles in the margins of each page. Gosh, this is a nightmare of its own. One that's going to put Maddox into a crappy mood that I'll have to deal with. I sighed, opening my drawer and pulling out a pack of M&M's. If I have to go in there and spoil his day, I need reinforcement to get through it. The kind that will keep his little pouty mouth busy until I explain all the different things that this ridiculous man doesn't like. And M&M's, I have found can do the trick.

    I stood off my chair and rounded my desk. Before I tell Maddox, I need to inform Mateo because he asked to be kept in the loop and it easier to walk over there and do it now then later. There is a big chance his going to come to Maddox to discuss the situation and it's better his ahead of the problem and has time to figure out a solution. Then him and Maddox can work it out together and I can just take notes. I rather not have to retell the whole story in front of Maddox because that will only annoy him more by having to hear it twice. Once's will do the trick.

    I paused by Abby, Mateo's assistant. "Is your boss in?"
She looked up, umber eyes settling on me. "He is. What is this about?"

     "Christian's contracts."

    She regarded me for a second, her expression falling as she realizes that this isn't a happy visit. Which made her sigh as deeply as I did when the email came through, and open her own drawer. I guess we all have our own tricks and tactics to level out of bosses. "Here." she said, pulling out a packed-up cookie, "Start with this. His already in a terrible mood because his brother showed up on the national news of all places, drunk and stumbling out of a bar."

    I cringed. "Ash?"

    She nodded as I took the cookie. "The one and only. I adore that kid, but he calls attention to himself, and his brother is always cleaning his mess."

    Who would clean up Jax's messes? I would say me, because if I know anything it's that I would go to the ends for that kid but do I want more children? Do I even have time for it? The truth was no. I didn't even have time for lunch today. Plus, it's not as if dating with a child and a demanding job is all that easy either. And even if by some crazy chance I were to meet someone and they could keep up with my hectic lifestyle, it would be years before Jax has someone around. By then he would be the one cleaning up after his siblings, or would it be nephew and nieces? Not the point but one I need to figure out. The point is, how do I give Jax a healthy family and one that would climb mountains for him? Am just I enough for him?