Love Drawn

Boss

Kevin's POV

It was 5 o'clock in the evening & I wanted nothing more but to head home. After having the conference meeting, which went well, I wanted nothing more than to relax. As I looked out of the 30th floor building window of my office, taking back the last sip of my scotch, I watched the cars, coming & going to work.

"There's always money to be made", I said aloud, as I turned back towards the mini bar & poured myself another glass. I was in mid sip when I heard a knock on the door.

"Come in", I said then continued to sip my drink. "Having an evening drink before heading home I see", Richard said, entering the office. He was dressed casually, yet still in a business type of way which was not his usual business attire he wore to work everyday.

"Yeah, this is my last one. You want one?".

"Yeah, I'll take one but you might want to have a few more after you hear this!"

I poured Richard a glass as he sat on the bar stool, interested to hear what it was he had to tell me.

"Davis said he's out", he said looking at me serious after sitting down.

"Out?! What do you mean he's out?"

"He said that our stocks dropped twenty percent in the last year & he couldn't continue to do business with our sales dropping like that. I even tried to convince him not to by showing him our numbers in sales but it didn't help much", he said after taking his drink back.

"So you didn't get chance to mention that whatever we lose in sales we always get back triple times the amount we lost! Right?"

Richard shook his head. I then started to pace the floor trying to come up with a plan.

"I wanted them to invest in the offer this year not refuse it", I thought to myself, then sighed & pinching the bridge of my nose & then said aloud, "Don't worry about it. We have a lot more investors than Davis does alone". After putting down the rest of his fourth glass of scotch, Richard stood up, his face reddening a little & said, "Yeah you're right! The bastard doesn't even know what he's turned down". Yeah exactly, I said as we walked towards the door.

"Well I'm going to head on home now cause I think the Mrs is calling", he said as he reached into his pants pocket, pulling out his iPhone. "Do you want me to wait up for you?"

I chuckled & said, "No, I'm about it head out in a few minutes after I wrap up in here". Alright then drive safely. " You do to Rich & tell Ashley I said hello". Richard smiled & said, "well do" & walked away. 

Standing behind the mahogany desk I shut down my desktop, gathered papers, my iPhone, car keys, & a few folders that I needed to look through & walked towards the door. As I passed the receptionist desk I looked at the clock on the wall, which read 7:30 pm, & walked towards the elevator. Pressing the down button, my iPhone started to ring, & without looking I swiped across the screen to answer it but immediately regretted that I had.

"I thought you was coming at 7 o'clock Kevin"?

It was my ex-wife Olivia. "I lose track of time Olivia but I'm on the way now", I said, trying not to raise my voice in irritation, & stepped into the elevator once I heard the ding.

"Chase has been waiting on you since 5 this evening. You could've called & told him you were going to be late".

"Olivia I was a conference meeting". As usual-.

I shook my head trying to control my temper but I felt like I was getting ready to lose it.

"- so there is no excuse as into why you put a dumb-ass conference call over calling your son to let him know your going to-". Olivia was so busy yelling in my ear that I didn't notice that the elevator had stopped on the 25th floor & someone stepped inside.

"Olivia I have to go", I told her & with that I ended the call & texted my son Chase, telling him that I was sorry for running late & that I still wanted him to come spend time with me for the weekend if he still wanted to. He replied back with a yes & an gif saying please hurry. I smiled at his text & replied back saying will do with an emoji thumbing up. 

When I was done, I glanced up & noticed that the elevator had made it down to the 12th floor & that the person that stepped into the elevator was a woman.