I reluctantly let her go and grab the mug of coffee. Mikayla’s done a fantastic job with breakfast, and a guy could really get used to this every morning. Not only how much I love seeing Mikayla’s breasts shake when I first slam into her, but how much I enjoy seeing her out of the bedroom too. The thought is there in the background of my mind as we eat, get ready, and head to work. Whereas once I only thought about a woman when I wanted to fuck her, now Mikayla takes up pretty much my entire day. It’s going to be a problem soon, one I’ll have to figure out a way to deal with. But not today.
Once I get into the parking lot I expect her to go, but she pauses.
“You’re very tense,” she observes. “Is something wrong at work?”
“Hopefully not for long. I can’t talk about it or else I’ll lose control, but suffice to say, I’ve uncovered someone doing a lot of damage to the company. He’s the reason why we’re in this mess to begin with. But all of that ends today.”
She looks into my eyes and smiles.
“I hope it will all work out how you want,” she says. “You’ve worked so hard, you deserve to have things go well.”
With that, she gets out of the car. I’m surprised by how much she cares. Unfortunately, once Mikayla leaves, my bad mood descends again. Let’s just get this over with, I think. This meeting with Kevin will hopefully be the end of Red Canyon Steakhouse’s troubles.
Kevin arrives at my office soon after I get my morning coffee. I carefully set a microphone to record, to make sure that he wouldn’t be able to get away with all the damage he’s done. I’ve prepared my words for our meeting, but as soon as he shows up I’m seeing red. This was supposed to be my father’s trusted friend, his right hand man. I can’t believe that he’s the one responsible for trying to destroy what my father has built.
When Sean first told me about the discrepancies, I was astonished that it had been so widespread in the company. But then Sean and I both realized that the only way this could have happened was if someone high up was orchestrating things. It took a while to dig up who could have benefited. I made Sean go through every person in the company, one by one, until finally, the only one left was Kevin. I didn’t want to believe it. Kevin had been there from the beginning, when my father took over the first Red Canyon Steakhouse. Why on earth would he have wanted the company to fail? I still couldn’t understand it.
“Logan,” Kevin said easily. “How are you doing?”
“Sit,” I said curtly, trying hard to rein in my anger. “I have something I want to talk to you about.”
“Of course,” he said. “What’s going on?”
I study his face, trying to see how the fucker could look at me like this, as if he’d done nothing wrong.
“You can stop pretending Kevin. I know. I know everything you’ve done to try and ruin the company my father built. You couldn’t possibly think that you could have gotten away with it for much longer once I brought Sean on board.”
Kevin’s mouth set for a moment before the anger burst out of him.
“Your father was an ungrateful bastard! Twenty five years, twenty five, I’ve worked under him, toiling and slaving away, believing in your father’s dream. Late nights, working weekends, I did it all. My wife left me, I never see my kids, but I did it. I did it all for Red Canyon Steakhouse and what your father told me it was going to be. And then, instead of retiring like he should have, he kept going, because he wanted you to take over the business. Wouldn’t give it up. Passed me over, even though I knew every bit of this business. I built it from the ground up with your father but it wasn’t good enough for him. He had to give it to his son, who had no stake in the business and wanted to go larking off to Silicon Valley to make apps!”
The rage pours off him like lava from a volcano and my jaw tightens. There is nothing to do but try and control my own emotions as Kevin leaps to his feet, pacing back and forth. I could see spittle flying from his mouth and I am secretly glad he wasn’t in my face instead.
“I talked to him, begged him, did everything I could to prove I was worthy. And instead of hearing me out, he turned his shoulder on me. Shut me out. Well, I didn’t get to where I was this long just to be left with nothing, so I decided I would take what’s mine. It wasn’t hard. Your father may have been the boss, but I was running things. I fed him all the information to keep him happy, until it was too late for him and everything started to fall apart. I would have bled this company dry if it hadn’t been for the stupid fool’s heart attack.”