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.

saw her move straight to reception, hair pulled tight,

didn’t even

said,

the cow

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and have it on my desk. Just remember tick–tock. He’ll be here by next

learned not to

desk. “You should just

due yet,” Sutton said flatly. She didn’t know what Nicole’s problem was. Surely she’d

It

“But you are… distracting.”

heard Stacey gasp beside her. Nicole didn’t even spare

“Do you really want coffee, or are you just here

sugar. “I’ve already prepped the CEO. He

you?”

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

headed to the

ale. She was feeling a

Jake, both of them pretending they weren’t watching Nicole hold court

heads like she was the

you like a chess piece,” Jake muttered low. “Like

didn’t answer right

makes it hell enough,

“Are you?”

“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

napkin, started folding it. “I’ve seen stopgaps. You’re

she said, “but it doesn’t

you should finish your code for the software

in case.”

one here who knew she was still coding. Quietly.

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

me, he isn’t. If he wasn’t so straight, I’d jump his bones. He’s a nice

everyone’s names and about their

Nicole. “Nicole has two faces. I don’t think he’s ever

I’ll believe it when I see

would be any day now

the bathroom. And when Sutton returned from her ten–minute walk break, the plant