Never Let You Go (sequel to Where do we go from here)

Back home

It was early afternoon when our flight landed back in NY and you can see it in the kids faces they were not happy, "Hey guys what wrong""why did we have to leave daddy and Gramma""Vick you know we had to come home you have school mommy has work""why can't we go to school there and you work there mommy""baby my job is here, you know what we will FaceTime daddy a little bit later ok.""Ok we pulled up into the driveway a short time later. The kids ran in the house and Immediately out the back to Play with Gucci,Chanel and Diablo they did miss there puppies if anything and luckily Violet our neighbor has been taking care of them well we were gone. I tossed my suitcase on the bed and walked into the kitchen to grab the mail on the counter that Violet had left there when that all now familiar bubble guts had started again, I've been having it on and off all week and some nasty headaches maybe Kay was right I need to stop stressing so much because it really is starting to take a toll. I walked over And flopped on the couch with the stack of mail and my phone and dialed Joey. It barley rang when he picked up "Baby""Hey were home""good y'all ok""Yea same flight different day, it's only a hour and a half""what the kids doing flew in and through the house and out the back to play with the dogs" I heard him let out a soft laugh. " What's going on there""Not much Ma seems lost with the kids gone""aww really""yea she said they made he feel useful""awe tell her we love her and we will try to come back soon""how soon""dunno Joe"" What's wrong with you""nothing why""I can tell it in your voice""just gotta headache""I'm sorry""you didn't do it""I know but""ok well I wanted to check in and let you know we're back ok, I gotta go. I gotta get kids settled and get ready for tommorow I have to go in and talk to Steve""alright baby, I love you""love you too bye".  The kids and I called it a early evening crashing out by like seven o'clock.

After waking up at 5 I spend the better part of the next hour and a half throwing up my brains out, my nerves are on overdrive for my meeting with Steve this morning, I didn't want to loose this Job I love what I'm doing and I'm very good at it, this is the firm that can take me to the next level and I don't want to loose that. I went to wake up the kids after I got myself ready JJ has always been the easy one but Victoria is very much her daddy when you try to wake her up. So after getting then dressed and ready we had the now infamous Lucky Charms, Cinnamon Toast Crunch fight before grabbing bookbags and heading out.

I pulled up to the drop off lane at the school and the kids jumped out of the Benz rushing off to their groups of friends JJ who's friends are just the sweetest lil boys I ever met, Now Victoria's friends most of them are from her Cheer squad I'm not a fan of most of the girls. They are very nasty to most of the other kids who don't happen to be involved in either their cheer and football group or is somehow associated. We didn't raise to be like that too people. I pulled out of drop off and swinged through the drive thru at Starbucks before heading into work.

I swing the Benz into my parking spot and I feel my palms sweat and the bile start to rise in my throat, this is it. I walk in and wave at Jeff the security guard and head to the elevator and press the 12th floor button. I walked off the elevator and as soon as Cassie seen me she immediately says "Mrs. McIntyre Mr. Harder wants to see you immediately""Ok thank you Cassie" I walked into my office and tossed my briefcase and keys on my desk and walked down the wall to Steve's office. I knock on the door "Steve" "Leesa come in shut the door please" I close the door behind me "sit down" I do as I'm told " Well Leesa it seems like we have found ourselves in quite a issue since you decided to not return back as you committed to when you left for Boston""I'm sorry about that Steve but my children needed Joey and Joey needed me I was unable to leave.""that is were the problem lies Leesa, it was to my knowledge your relationship with Joey wasn't a factor""I have children with him there is always going to be a part of my life he is involved with.""Well and there lies the issue now I understand your personal life is just that personal I do have a problem with when it interferes with you doing your job. This isn't a little small time firm we have all top tier talent and you were hired with the expectation that you could preform what would be required of you to serve those clients. I had to go in on Monday and handle your case which did not sit well with Judge Simmons as well as Cardi B and Offset""I spoke with Cardi on Monday night who assured me she understood the situation""our clients shouldn't have to understand your situation with your ex husband, our clients need a attorney that will be accessible for their needs not one who is going to chase after her has been singer ex husband" at that point I just sat and took whatever he had to say because I knew Steve was able to take my career to places I couldn't on my own but when he said that about Joe I my blood started to boil and I felt myself standing up. " With all do respect I would appreciate your negative comments about my HUSBAND to stop""your husband is the one who has put you in this situation" That was it "Ok first off he did no such thing, second of all you may be the partner here in the firm but it doesn't give you the right to dictate my life outside of this office. I come in every day and am very good what I do all my clients are extremely happy with it, yes I had to take a few more days off but I worked well I was there. Also I don't appreciate my husbands name being slandered by you, he is not a has been."" Well Mrs McIntyre I feel that you services with this firm is no longer needed, please turn over your case files and contact your clients to inform them that you are no longer thier repersentation. " Fine with me, case files will be on my desk in the office!" I walked out tossed the case files on the desk and headed out, I knew I was going to breakdown but I wasn't going to do it in the office in front of Steve. I got to the car and throw my briefcase I feel the tears sliding down my cheek. I grabbed my phone out of my purse and turn it on to see a text about a hour ago from Joe