Chapter 11

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"Lauren! We have a problem!"

Lauren lift her heavy head of hair from her work and cast her eyes across to her best friend bursting violently into the room

"Problem?"

He paused gasping for air as he threw a report down onto the table, it had *urgent* slammed across the front with Lauren's name just underneath

"Capuchin, their stocks plummet last night, that report you gave to Dinah? It's gonna flatline as soon as it's processed!"

Lauren shot from her chair grabbing the file between her hands before storming out into the open floor calling out for a few associates at their desks

"What the fuck is this!"

She yelled harshly causing the 5 men stood in front of her desk to shrivel, she slammed the paperwork down onto the desk before perching herself angrily onto the glass

"Well? Is anyone going to fucking answer me?"

One of the men stepped forward and stuttered

"I-it was out of our control Miss Jauregui"

Lauren prised herself into a standing position approaching the man closely

"Out of your control? 16 million dollars OUT OF YOUR CONTROL?"

The man stepped back sheepishly rubbing his sweat soaked palms against his legs, the room was tense and awkward, Lauren's voice was harsh enough to stop a moving train and in the moment the cowering boys hearts

"Someone better start talking or I swear to god!"

A small voice spoke out amongst the grainy textured room

"The guys left early, I- I was on my own, the systems they started to crash and I didn't realise that.. when they came back on, the stocks had decreased, I tried to pull them back but"

Lauren brushed her fingertips over her raging brow as she attempt to hold herself together pacing back and forth as the young mans voice trailed away

"Sammy, you can go"

She shot in a scarily calm voice, she was fully aware that the real problem was the 4 stuck up rich boys stood in front of her, as the small intern body scurried out of the room she lent herself against the desk once more taking a moment of silence to take in the situation at hand

"Where did you go last night?"

She asked sternly looking at each body individually

"Mark told us to go home early"

One voice spoke timidly

"Yeah Jared also told me to leave"

Mark and Jared stood rather smugly with a small tint of fear in their eyes as they looked on at Lauren

"And since when were these two fuck wits your boss?"

The guys eyes dart to the ground

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