Wynta nodded at him. “Do I get the chance to defend myself?”
“Yes, you will. I’ll call for you when we’ve gotten to the bottom of it. I don’t need your statement at this point, I’ll get it when you and Carlotti are in the same room. So, her reaction can be seen. She, however, has stated you kicked her into a wall, did you?”
“I did, and I’m now paying for it. My instincts took over,” Wynta stated simply.
“Alright, it’ll likely be a while, but I’ll call for you to come to the 10th floor boardroom when I’m ready.” He stated, and his eyes moved back to her mouth, and then he just sighed and walked off. Called for all her staff to come with him, and she watched them all walk off. A few looked at her, and she waved them to go with him.
She took the time to download her own camera evidence onto a USB drive and put it in her pocket. She would just hand it over and ask them to watch it. She wondered just what Edward or Jared’s reaction would be, to Carlotti’s words about secretly dating Jared and implying they were going to Mark and Mate now that Lance was Mated himself.
Carlotti, she didn’t think, actually know the entirety of the pack’s laws on who was to get the seat, she had likely not actually read everything in detail, just skimmed over it, gotten the basic gist of it.
Whereas Edward had given her the pack’s law book as a way of showing her he wanted her to be part of the pack, and understand the rules and protocols to be followed, and she’d actually sat and read it out of pure curiosity. Carlotti, she didn’t think understood that although Lance may now be the first in line, Jared could still take the seat away from him, if he found his mate and had a child before his little brother turned 100.
Therefore, he wouldn’t just take a chosen mate when he was only 82, he still had 18 years to find a Mate and produce an heir which would see him take the seat of Alpha, over any of his siblings, regardless of whether they all had Mates and heirs. He was the oldest, so he could find his Mate last and still get the seat.
Jared
He stood looking at Carlotti, standing before Dwane because she couldn’t get into Ernesto. He was in a meeting, so had been told to go and tell her complaint to Dwane, the next in line. She was currently standing in Dwane’s office playing the victim card, and he knew it.
She was trying to get Wynta disciplined and thought that because Dwane was her stepbrother, she would be able to gain his sympathy, and his favor due to their so-called family relationship. Not that Dwane considered this she-wolf his kin any more than Meredith his sister did.
He was leaning in Dwane’s office doorway himself, listening to her sob story of how Wynta had apparently assaulted her, had kicked her across a room and into a wall. That it was unwarranted. All she’d done was go there to apologize to Wynta for making her feel unwelcome and Jared having put her out of the car.
Then she’d explained that this was the first chance she’d gotten to do that since that day. She’d not seen Wynta until today. That she’d not been expecting to be attacked over a simple apology. She’d looked from Dwane to Jared and murmured, “It’s not right.” She’d shaken her head and spoken softly, almost sounded sad to him.
“Did you do anything to offend her?” Jared asked from where he stood. He knew there was no way Wynta had started a physical fight with a fully-fledged she-wolf when she was wolf-less. That would just be stupid, and he didn’t get that from Wynta, stubborn as all hell, but not stupid.
“No.” Lotti shook her head. “Your father would lash me again if I did. I understand he’s trying to bring her into the pack. I honestly just went there to apologize. I guess she is a rogue after all, and is just aggressive and now hates me… Jared, you did tell me it was her in your car that day, and she’s now holding a grudge against me, I guess.”
Now that grabbed his attention, he’d not told her that, she’d made mention of it herself, gone. on about the smell of a rogue in his car. He just stood staring at her for a long quiet moment and then stated, “She physically hurt you?” he asked with a frown. “Kicked you?”
“Yes, with everything she had.” She nodded at him. “It still hurts.” She shook her head. “I’m certain she hates me, but I didn’t know she was in your car that day, not until I got in it, and you told me it was her.”
Again, another lie, ‘keep lying,’ he thought to himself absently. “Dwane go down to security and check the footage from the marketing floor. I don’t want to be hauling Wynta in, and seeing my own father round on me if I’ve not done my due diligence, he’s already ticked off that I screwed up Wynta being brought in.”
“I didn’t see any cameras in her office.” Lotti shook her head.
“I was in there today. There aren’t, but her office is a glass box and the cameras outside should catch some of it, if not all of it depending on where they are situated.” He smiled at her. “Don’t worry Lotti, Dwane and I will get to the bottom of this.”
“Lotti, why don’t you just wait here in my office.” Dwane nodded to her and motioned for her to take a seat.
“Thank you big brother.” She smiled at him and Jared watched her sit down and even grimace as she did so, holding a hand to her stomach.
“When exactly did this happen?” he asked her as Dwane made his way from the office.
She looked at her watch. “Um, about 30 or 40 minutes ago.”
“Then why are you still in pain? You have wolfen healing, so you shouldn’t be. It’s also unlikely that you’re seriously injured. Wynta has a serious knee injury right now as well. So, I doubt she kicked you that hard.” He told her the truth as he knew it just to see her reaction.
She was frowning at him now, and he smiled at her. “But don’t you concern yourself now, if it’s as you state, and Wynta attacked you without due provocation, then I will see she is fired for workplace violence.”
“What knee injury?” Lotti asked him as he stood there and watched her, “She looked perfectly fine to me,” she stated as he turned to leave the office.
“Well, Lotti, if you’d bothered to visit Wynta in the pack’s hospital and apologize, then, you’d have known she suffered multiple injuries and nearly died…” he stopped walking and turned to look at her now. “Why didn’t you go and apologize when she was in the pack?” he asked you said this was the first time you saw her, but everyone knew she was in the pack hospital.”
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