In Love With My Sister Husband

Chapter 18

HARLEM P.O.V.

I pulled up in front of my company and admired the huge building. Crazy how your life could really get flipped upside down in the matter of seconds. I gave my keys to Valet and went inside. People looking at me weird staring. I expected this though. I got life in prison for murders. Rose tarnished my name and told everyone how I was fuckin her sister and they both worked for me. I lost a lot of business from all that shit.  I ignored the uneasy stairs and caught the elevator to get up to my office.

Welcome home, Mr. Hendrix! Cynthia smiled greeting me as I stepped foot off the elevator.

Thank you. I forced a smile on my face and headed to my office. I had so much work to do and to try and catch up on. I lost so much and now I have to try to build it back. I immediately logged into my email to try and set up meetings and get the ball rolling again. I had months and months of paper work on my desk.

The more I looked at this shit the more I got mad. Now this shit was what was gonna make me crash out. I separated everything in piles. From the most important to the least.

Mr. Hendrix here is your coffee. And you have a visitor.

Thank you, and Cynthia send out a mass email for a mandatory meeting for every single person who works for my company to meet in the auditorium today at 1pm. Please!

Yes sir.

She handed me the coffee and walked out the door and the door opened. Rose came in and she had a blank facial expression.

What are you doing here? I asked getting up from my seat.

I came up to see you....

Rose you're fired! That's not even something I should have told you but clearly you need things to be said out loud for you.

You can't fire me!

I just did.

Okay well sueing you for discrimination.

You still fuckin owe me money! How the fuck are you gonna sue me? And for two you should have another affidavit at your house because I'm sueing you again for damages you've done to my company.

I didn't do no fuckin damage!

Yes you did, defamation of character, making me lose out money, losing huge partners, yeah all this shit is a result of you.

Well maybe you shouldn't have fucked my sister and we wouldn't be here right now. That's why the bitch is dead!  Her words really made my blood boil. I wanted to ring her fuckin neck as the memories filled my head from the day she came in here accusing me of killing the love of my life and getting arrested.

And you will be too very soon! I promise you! I said stepping close to her whispering in her ear. "Now get the fuck out before your day comes sooner than you expect."

She huffed her breath and stormed out my office. I pressed the button on my intercom to make sure security escorts her to her office for her things than off my premises, with a warning if she was to come back the police will be called.

I dug deep into all this paper work. I had so much shit. I sat at my conference table and started it all. Not sure if Malani ever planned on retuning to work, if she isn't I need to hire another good Chief. Someone like her. As well as another marketing manager. I need to hire for a lot of shit. A lot of my staff quit due to not wanting to work for a murderer.

My timer went off letting me know it was 1pm. I got up grabbing my jacket from my chair and putting it on before leaving out.

I made my way into the auditorium and it was so many people in here. I walked on stage and it silenced really quickly. Cynthia gave me the microphone and I took a deep breath before I started to speak.

Hello, Goodafternoon. A lot of you have not met me yet but I'm sure most if not all of you had heard of me by now. I am the proud CEO of BX. My name is Harlem Hendrix. I've been building this company for years by myself. As some of you may have heard and seen over a year ago I got walked out of here in cuffs. The crimes that I was accused of got me sentenced to a life of imprisonment because someone lied on me. I'm able to be out of prison today and a free man because she recanted on her statement. Because she lied due to other personal reasons. I am a man of many mistakes who faces many challenges. And it's been a lot of talking and bickering back and forth and a lot of you don't wanna work for a man who was accused of such crimes. I'm here today to tell you if you don't want to work here leave, go ahead right now. Get up and leave.

(Many people started to get up and leave the audience. I had security at the door as they exited getting the name and department they worked for because they quit they won't be able to say no they didn't quit or try to come back or even get unemployment.) After a while it had settled down and a lot of people left. "To you who have stayed Thank you! The things that were put out there to tear down my name and this company aren't true. I promise to work harder to regain the trust and hardship I built the foundation of this company with. This isn't easy for me but getting up here and clearing the air before I can do anything is what needed to be done. Thank you everyone who's staying with us. Y'all finish having an amazing day, God bless!" I waved and people stood to their feet and clapped. I handed Cynthia the mic as I walked away. ".give everyone who is in this room still right now a $10 raise, and on Friday do a employee appreciation event." I whispered to her before walking away.

Yes sir! And you did very well. She smiled.

Thanks. I walked away from her and headed out the auditorium and back up to my office. I been working for hours and it doesn't seem like I made a dent in anything.