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Ch14:Blah, Blah, Blah

"Wait until you meet the guy they hired to head up Mergers and Acquisitions. I know you threw your hat in the ring for that position, Leah. But you barely do a decent job without me riding you 24/7 here in Finance. This guy they hired, due to my recommendation, of course—" Sam Uley took a breather to puff out his already overstuffed chest before finishing "—is a real predator in the business world. He's not afraid to do what it takes to win."

Leah rolled her eyes as she listened to her division head go on and on about the new hire. He delighted in rubbing her nose in the fact that someone else had gotten the position she had wanted so very badly.

She wanted to do him bodily harm, and she despised him for bringing out this evil part of her. She could have gone her entire life without even knowing that something like that existed in her. Her wolf who really wanted to stab Sam Uley in the eye with her number two pencil and laugh crazily was livid inside her head, and Leah had to do everything in her power to keep that part of her chained and subdued or else…

They were sitting in the conference room waiting for the president of Mainstay to come in and introduce the new boy wonder. The person's identity had been kept hush-hush, but now everyone was going to meet the guy.

Leah couldn't care less. Any friend of Sam Uley's was an enemy of hers. That was for certain. She couldn't care less if the man walked on water and turned said water into wine. She was not going to like him. Period.

Leah shivered slightly touching her turtleneck blouse that was hiding her mark. She could have sworn she caught Jake's scent but why would he be here? Her mind couldn't wander for too long with Sam's irritating voice nagging in her ear.

She practiced trying to zone Sam out as he went on and on about the last report she had written that apparently wasn't up to standards.

Big. Surprise.

She tried not to hate people, but she was starting to hate Sam Uley.

Who was she kidding? She despised the man. She didn't know if she could despise anymore more until she saw Jacob Black walking into the conference room with the president of Mainstay, Tyler Crowley.

Jake had taken her new job.

Jake was a friend of Sam's.

Jake had made love to her like no one ever had, shown her his softer side and made her fall in love with him.

And Jake had taken her job.

The jerk!

Oh sure, Jake seemed shocked at seeing her there. But one look at Sam Uley's smug face told her that somehow he and Jake must have been in cahoots. Sam was one step away from saying, Na-na-na-na-na. And she just knew that's what he was thinking when she saw Sam's facial expression.

The award to greatest stunned actor: Jacob fucking Black, Leah body tensed and she could already feel the heat creep up her spine as if she were going to phase.

When Leah's hands started to tremble she began thinking of ways to calm herself, knowing she couldn't just walk out of the office. Woosah. Woosah.

She tried to calm the crazy, pencil-wielding maniac wolf inside of her, but it was harder than it usually was. There were two people she wanted to puncture with her trusty number two now…

Everything went by in a blur. The introductions, Tyler Crowley reciting Jake's impressive resume, all it might as well have been blah, blah, blah as far as Leah was concerned.

Her heart felt as if someone had taken a butcher knife to it. She just knew her chest had to be bloody and her heart must have been spurting all over the place, because that's what it felt like. She couldn't get over the hurt and betrayal she felt.

Was this or was this not the same man who had just made love to her all day Sunday? Had he or had he not begged her to continue their fling—which he was now calling a "relationship," by the way…

When the traitor finally made his way to her division, she had resolved that she would play it cool in the workplace. But the first chance she got outside of work, it was going to be on!

"Hey, Leah. I didn't know you worked for Mainstay." Jake glared at Sam. "That's something you could have told me, Sam."

Sam laughed his boisterous, annoying "ah ha ha ha, ah ha ha ha ha" that sounded like a jacked up Santa who didn't know his lines. She hated Sam's laugh almost as much as she hated Sam.

"So you're trying to tell me that you didn't know I worked here?" Leah seethed. "Next thing you'll be saying is you didn't know that I was also in the running for your job until the company found out that they could get this whiz-kid interloper."

Jake's eyes narrowed.

Sam smiled. "Almost karmic isn't it? Except karma had nothing to do with it." Sam walked away, looking a little too pleased with himself.

Jake sighed. "I honestly didn't know Leah. We didn't talk about work in Blake. And Sam didn't let on that you worked here. He certainly didn't tell me that you also wanted this job. If he had, I can't say for sure it would have made a difference when I first applied, because a few weeks ago I still held a grudge against you and it would have made my big ego feel vindicated to know I beat you out of something you wanted…" he paused. "But now I feel horrible."

"Yeah, right, Jacob. Listen, I don't believe in fraternizing with my colleagues and especially not my superiors… so, needless to say, anything we agreed on continuing yesterday is null and void today." she was about to walk away but he grabbed her arm. The usual sparks flew through her body but Leah fought it moving her arm out of his grip. "Don't you fucking touch me. Ever again." she snarled. "Null in void get that through your thick head Mr. Black. It's done." she snarled.

He immediately frowned growling lowly as he moved his now fisted hands back to his side. "The hell it is Leah. You don't get to just decide that—"

"The hell I don't!" she narrowed her eyes at him in disgust. "careful Mr. Black, you don't want to pick up a harassment suit on your first day." She raised her left eyebrow. "Stay the fuck away from me or you'll be sorry." Leah turned and walked away with her head held high even though her heart seemed to break with each step she took.

Jake didn't know what to make of the fact that Leah worked at Mainstay and Sam hadn't thought it was important to share that tidbit of information. Sam had probably been going for the shock factor. Especially since he knew how much Jake had hated losing that election to Leah years ago. But Sam would have been the one in shock if he had known just how far past all of that nonsense Leah and Jake had moved.

Only to end up further back than they had started! Jake knew in his heart that Leah had meant every word she had uttered to him in the conference room on his first day. That first workday had kept him too busy to go and talk with her again. He'd had a whole new company and a whole new way of doing things to process. But he did try to talk to her later that evening and again and again every day since.

When he tried to call her she didn't answer.

When he dropped by she refused to answer the door. And he knew she was in there, because he could smell her. He almost took to breaking her door but that would give her another reason to be upset with him.

He knew she was hurting because he could feel it. But he was hurting, too. Being without her was killing his spirit.

As he sat in his office wondering if she would make good on her threat to file a sexual harassment suit if he didn't leave her alone, Sam came waltzing in.

"So, I thought I would give you a little time to get lay of the land and get over the shock of seeing Leah here. I thought that would get you good, seeing her. But don't worry. She's on her way out of here, man. As soon as I can manage it, I'm axing her behind I'm just biding time since she's worked here for a while."

Jake wanted to punch that smug look off Sam's face. But he knew if he had he might accidently end up smashing his skull and killing him. So he decided to let the chump cut enough rope to hang himself. As hard as it was to listen to Sam, he just let the man talk.

Jake leaned back in his chair and kicked his feet up on his desk. "I was rather surprised to see her, and even more surprised that you would think I didn't need to know that little piece of information before I took a job here."

Sam grinned rubbing his jaw. "That's the beauty of it my friend. You can help me get rid of her and pay her back for wiping the floor with you during the election. Just think of her little prissy know it all self out of a job in her thirties, in this economy. It would be a dish served cold for sure." Sam took a seat without being offered one.

Jake tried to keep himself calm, but the venom in Sam's voice was taking him to a place of no return. He cleared his throat and loosened the knot in his tie a little. It helped stop him from pummeling Sam for the moment. Jake needed more information. Sam seemed to have far too much anger where Leah was concerned.

"Tell me something, Sam, what did Leah ever do to you? Why do you dislike her so much?"

"I don't dislike her. I hate her." he spat as he put his index finger up. "First, she thought she was too cute to give a guy the time of day in college. I asked her out and she turned me down flat." He paused and clasped his hands together as he fluttered his eyes open and closed. "But then she used to make goo-goo eyes over you, left and right, when she thought no one was looking. I could tell she had a thing for you even then. She probably still does, I caught her watching you the other day all longingly when thought no one was watching her. I bet it's killing her having you here!"

Jake thought he was done but Sam continued to dig his own grave. "Do you know she didn't even remember me at first when I came to work here?" he asked incredulously continuing before Jake could think to answer. "Me? After all that time we all spent in the student government office, she had the nerve to have to be reminded of who I was." He said bitterly. "But she remembered you just fine, didn't she. I always knew she had a thing for you. And that night when you were feeling her up and kissing her in the SG office… man, that was something." He shook his head. "I thought the two of you were going to take it all the way. I was glad I had my camera. But she stopped after all that teasing."

Jake stood up then. "You took the picture of us kissing?" He walked around the desk and stood by Sam's chair.

Sam sprang up and backed away, clearly rethinking what he had, in his bitter tirade about Leah, over shared. "Okay, listen… you're going to find this sort of funny." He chuckled a bit before he realized Jake wasn't joining him, then he immediately began to talk fast. "Yes, I took the picture of you two kissing. I don't know why I took it. But after I took it, I figured it would be a way to possibly snag the election for myself. I figured once it was leaked, it would ruin both of your chances and I could swoop in as the write-in. So, you see, Leah ruined the election for me, as well." Sam backed up inching toward the door

It was all Jake could do not to phase as his hands quaked. But he did follow Sam's every step, though. And his hands did find their way around Sam's neck quicker than a flash. Before he knew it, he had Sam against his office door.

"Hey, man, it was just a college election," Sam stammered as his feet dangled in the air. "This is unprofessional, man! I could get you fired for this or press charges. You need to watch it! Sheesh! I can't believe you're bugging out like this."

Jake sneered, feeling more like a wolf in his human form than he had ever felt in his life. The need for blood raced through him.

"Let me get this clear. Were you trying to use me in your sick little vendetta against Leah?" Jake gritted his teeth, and he still hadn't let go of Sam's neck or let him down from the wall.

"Yes… I mean, no… I mean… I don't know man…" Sam's answer changed each time Jake's grip tightened on his neck.

"Okay. You seem confused." Jake tried to say calmly although he could even hear the growl that was vibrating through him. "Let me clear this up for you. You are going to let go of this little vendetta of yours. Because Leah Clearwater is off limits. I will go to any length to protect people who are important to me. And Leah is the most important person in the world to me. She's the woman I love. And if you so much as look at her sideways, you don't even want to know what I'll do to you."

Jake let Sam slide down from the door as Sam coughed and gasped for air. Jake straightened his tie and started walking toward his desk. "Get the hell out of my office, Sam. And do me a favor and stay away from me. It would be in your best interest."

Sam gained a little more courage once his feet were on the ground and the door was partially opened. "You stay the hell away from me, too, Black. Based on our former friendship, I won't press charges on your ass. But for the record, we are no longer friends!"

Jake narrowed his eyes and started walking back toward Sam. "Why the fuck are you still in my office?"

Sam made haste getting out of there. Jake went to close the door, catching a hint of Leah's scent that caused him to almost rip his door open, throw Leah over his shoulder and not give a damn what anyone else thought. Instead he collapsed in his chair with his head in his hands and tried to think of the ways it would take to win the love of his life back.

Okay I'm no longer saying that I'm going to update my other stories and then not have the chance to.

But I'll get back on point after my life goes back to what I like to call semi normal.

Yay! \(^-^)/ the drama is far from over. In fact it's just started since Jake still hasn't tried to get Leah back. And all I'll say to that is 'hell hath no fury like a woman scorned' hahaahahaha

I'll try not to start anymore new stories until I update the other ones I already have up.

And I just realized I use the word 'fuck' alot when I write... hahaha... ah well...

Anyways Review :)