Chapter 4 - Holden

When Seth and I get to the office, Amelia is sitting at her desk. I hate that she is our secretary, but since her and Seth are engaged, I did not have much say. I didn’t want to hurt Seth and let her know that I didn’t feel like she was the right person for him. There was something about Amelia that I just didn’t trust. Maybe I was holding onto old times, but this feeling extends back to our high school days. Amelia and Mayson never seemed to click. I could never figure out exactly what the issue was between the two of them. Mayson and Amelia were completely opposite personality wise. Amelia went out of her way to be a bitch, especially to someone she felt was competition for the attention in the room. Mayson was also one to stand in the background. She didn’t like to have the spotlight on her. She would rather see someone else succeed before herself. That may have been one of the reasons I had fallen in love with her. The red hair and the green eyes drew me in, but her spirit and soul were what held me there. I have never met a person like her and when she left, a piece of my heart went with her. No matter what my future looked like she would always have that part of me.

“Seth, my love, the board members confirmed that they will be here at 10 a.m. Is there “anything” you need me to do before the meeting.” I knew what Amelia meant and we did not have the time for her and Seth to be fucking around (literally) before this big meeting. Seth needed to have all the blood flow to his brain at the moment and not below his belt.

“Amelia, this is not the time for your office romps at the moment. Seth and I have to go over this presentation one more time before the meeting. If we can get this contract, you can fuck his brains out on the conference room table, but right now please just make sure everything is set up for the presentation.” Amelia looked at me like she could kill me. She was not someone that liked being told no. I believe Seth was happy with her to a point, but I knew his happiness depended on him letting her have her way at all times. I wanted to say something so bad about it, but I knew it could jeopardize our friendship and it wasn’t worth it. I could only hope that Seth will eventually put his foot down with Amelia and stopped making her more of a brat.

“Holden, that was a pretty harsh thing to say to Amelia. I know that we have times when we take the long lunch breaks, but you could cut her some slack.” I understand where Seth is coming from but this is an important meeting that could make or break this company. His relationship with Amelia was just going to have to cool down in regard to their office antics. I didn’t have the patience for it today.

“Seth, I understand she is your woman and you are getting married, but this is not the time to get your d&?k wet. We need to have the big head in the game, and the little head sit on the sidelines for now. Any other day screw her brains out on every surface in this building, but not today.” Seth just looked at me at first like he was angry, but the frown went away and he just shook his head indicating he understood and was sorry. Seth didn’t say sorry but I knew what the head shake meant.

After about an hour of going through the presentation, I think we are ready. I double checked to make sure the internet connection was fine. I didn’t need the internet crashing on me before in the middle of the presentation. That would make us look like two small town hicks. Technically, we were small town hicks, but we were also professional business men.

One last walk through the conference room to make sure everything was ready to go. The internet had a strong signal, the snacks and drinks were out. There were copies of the presentation at each seat. Now all we were waiting on was the board members and the architect that we were going to be working on this project with. I had tried to find out the information on this guy but there was nothing in the paperwork that listed who he was or what firm he was with. I hated surprises and this one was a big one.