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

even bother pretending

she said, too

cow was

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remember tick–tock. He’ll be here by next week.

She’d learned not to give Nicole

desk.

said flatly. She didn’t know

women before. It

“But you are… distracting.”

beside her. Nicole

stood up. “Do you really want coffee, or

leaned in. Her voice dropped fake sugar. “I’ve already prepped the CEO. He knows

you?”

Just turned and walked off, hips swinging like she’d just closed a

Sutton headed to the coffee machine and made the wicked

and ginger ale. She

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

she was the

you like a chess piece,” Jake muttered low. “Like she’s waiting for

answer right

thinks if she makes it hell enough,

“Are you?”

got two more interviews this week. I’m not dumb, Jake. Cyber10 didn’t hire.

napkin, started folding it. “I’ve seen

said, “but it

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

in case.”

who knew she was still coding. Quietly. Something she

like her, because I feel sorry

so

but he knows everyone’s names and

has two faces. I don’t think he’s

it when I see it.

any day now before she was

cried in the bathroom. And when Sutton returned from her