Beneath Her Bastard Boss

Chapter 101

Monday started with another rejection for a job she had applied for.

Sutton stared at the email on her screen… it was short. She wasn’t suitable for the role. What a joke. She could

write code in her sleep. Just because she was a model didn’t make her stupid.

She sat there for a second longer than she should’ve, cursor hovering over the trash icon. Then she hit delete.

Because if she didn’t, she might have replied to their email in a very unprofessional way. She was ready to scream

every version of frustration in her head before she even logged in.

Stacey, sitting beside her, heard her sigh. “You okay?”

The younger girl worked on reception with her. Three days a week.

“Hmm…” Sutton turned and looked at the woman.

“I asked if you were okay… You let out a huge sigh? Bad news?”

“No… No bloody news, more like it.”

“What?”

Sutton shook her head. “Nothing. It’s not important.” Well, it was, but she wasn’t about to talk about it.

She shifted in her seat and winced. The baby had started pressing down harder. Her OB said it was normal, something about head engagement and pelvic pressure, but it felt like being punched from the inside out.

She rubbed at the ache under the desk and took a sip of lukewarm tea she’d forgotten about. Ethan had brought it this morning, along with a note written on a napkin that just said: “If today sucks, let me be your buffer. If today.

doesn’t suck, it’s a trap.”

Jake was one of the men that had arrived with Nicole. He was so different from that bitch. At first Sutton had

thought it was fake, but he was nice. And kind.

She didn’t smile, but she kept the napkin.

The elevator dinged. Sutton didn’t look up.

By the sound of the heels hitting the tiles she know who is was. Nicole.

eye Sutton saw her move straight to reception, hair pulled tight, mouth

even bother

said,

how the cow was going to take

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Chapter 101

it on my desk. Just remember tick–tock. He’ll be here by next week. I don’t want the

She’d learned not to

desk. “You should

She didn’t know what Nicole’s problem was. Surely she’d worked

before. It just didn’t

“But you are… distracting.”

beside her. Nicole didn’t even spare her

really want coffee, or are you just here for the

sugar. “I’ve already prepped the CEO.

you?”

the sentence. Just turned and walked off, hips swinging like she’d just

to the

and ginger ale. She was

of them pretending they weren’t watching Nicole hold

heads like she was

a chess piece,” Jake muttered low.

didn’t answer

it hell enough, I’ll

“Are you?”

looked down at her belly. “I’ve got two more interviews this week. I’m not dumb, Jake. Cyber10 didn’t hire. me because they liked me. I was a stopgap. A body in a chair. She’s making sure I know

of napkin, started folding it. “I’ve seen stopgaps. You’re not

“but

maybe you should finish your code for the software you’re building and shove it

in case.”

was still coding. Quietly. Something she did at her

once. “I just hope your boss isn’t like her, because I feel sorry for Cyber10 if he is. It was bad enough with

wasn’t so straight, I’d jump his bones. He’s a nice guy-

he knows everyone’s names and

back at Nicole. “Nicole has two faces. I don’t

I’ll believe it when

felt like it would be any day now before she was

had started clearing rooms for “executive use.” Some admin intern cried in the bathroom. And when Sutton returned from her ten–minute walk break, the plant on