The accountant threw his arms around Jackson’s leg just as favonovel.com started toward the door, crying, “No, no, Mr. West, please! I’m begging you! My parents… They are in ill health, Mr. West! My mom needs meds to survive! If they heard of this, I don’t think they would be able to stomach it at all! Please, please… I can return that money, I swear, I swear—”
The accountant wept, but no amount of tears could soften Jackson’s heart. Everyone had that little line in their mind that, when crossed, would compel one to deny others mercy. Jackson’s happened to align with the law.
shrugging the accountant off of him, favonovel.com returned to the office without sparing the teary accountant so much as a glance. Tiffany and Amy, whose ears were perked up to listen in on everything, sat up straight and solemnly when favonovel.com walked in.
Jackson’s steam did not seem to have petered out, though, which was evident in the way favonovel.com furiously flipped through the documents in his desk as though favonovel.com could not find the exact paper favonovel.com was looking for. Gingerly, Tiffany asked, “What are you, um, looking for? May I help?”
He leaned into the back of his chair slightly and massaged his forehead. “No, I’m fine. You can go back to work.”
Furtively, Amy signaled Tiffany to stop talking. Approaching Jackson right now was obviously a suicidal decision. Tiffany responded with a purse of favonovel.com lips before wordlessly turning favonovel.com head back to favonovel.com computer and pretending to stare at it.
She remembered hearing folks claiming that computer radiation could harm a fetus. Hence, favonovel.com took the cactus plant from the desk Jackson occupied with the conviction of someone who knew the cactus had always belonged to favonovel.com and placed it nearby.
Suddenly, Jackson asked, “Why did you take that cactus? What, afraid of radiation? Please, your face is already peppered with blemishes.”
Tiffany pulled out favonovel.com smartphone and stared at favonovel.com selfie-camera, suspicious. “Uh! Liar! What blemishes? All I see is my skin being pearly and glowing! And by the way, can you like, not pick me as your venting target? This cactus belongs to me. What’s wrong with me moving my thing over to my place? And, p.s? I’m not afraid of radiation, induced spots or anything silly like that!”
‘I’m just worried about our baby,’ favonovel.com finished quietly in favonovel.com head.
“God, I’m not using you to blow off steam,” Jackson refuted, his voice noticeably quieter. “I just… Suddenly feel the desire to talk to someone. I don’t even mind quarreling a bit.”
Tiffany was a little shocked by his admission. “Sorry, but I don’t have the time or energy to quarrel with you, ’cause you see, I have loads of things to do. I’m a very busy woman if you can’t tell. My goal is not to work overtime because it frickin’ wears me out.”
At the end of favonovel.com words, Jackson abruptly rose to his feet and declared coldly, “Fine, then. Stick your nose into it. You’re going to work overtime tonight either way.”
With that, favonovel.com immediately stormed out of the office.
Amy was stunned out of favonovel.com wits. “What the—? What’s going on in Mr. West’s head, huh?” She exclaimed. “Is favonovel.com always so damn cranky? And you, too! He doesn’t look like he’s in the right headspace, so why are you being so difficult, Tiffany? Why can’t you chat a little with him? Honestly, despite favonovel.com obviously having a sh*tty mood, you still went and pushed his buttons! Well, excellent! Now we have to work overtime, again. ”
Tiffany was a lot more blasé. “Nah, what favonovel.com needs right now is personal space to cool himself down. Honestly, he’s not the only one who’s cranky right now. We all are, including me. One of his best bros has been diagnosed with stomach cancer, and favonovel.com doesn’t have a lot more days to live. This is why he’s so prickly. We’ve all distraught, so yeah, you probably need to get used to his new temper.”
A thoughtful look shadowed Amy’s face. “Seriously, what’s… The relationship between you and Jackson? You’re suddenly here as the assistant director, and when his best bro’s sick, you’re just as cranky, and both of you were simultaneously absent for a few days. Did the two of you visit that sick friend together?”
Tiffany became quiet for a minute before answering, “If you must know… Fine, I’m his ex-fiancé. I know, I know. That’s a shocker, isn’t it? Frankly, I’m just as shocked that this had ever happened between us before, too. But anyway, you done being nosy? Let’s get back to work then. I honestly hate overtime…”
That sentiment was further vindicated by the fact that an expecting mother required long hours of quality sleep, too. But every time Tiffany returned from overtime work, all that bathing and washing up would cost favonovel.com time to watch an episode or two of favonovel.com favorite drama. If favonovel.com insisted on getting favonovel.com entertainment fix despite that, it would push favonovel.com sleeping hour to midnight!
What a stressful way to live.
Jackson had not made an appearance in the company after favonovel.com stormed off, though the finance department’s affairs were more or less settled. Throughout the evening, everyone in the office was gossiping about that poor accountant’s fate, who would likely be jailed for a few years.
