Wynta listened to it and before anyone could say anything she spoke first. “Edward, I did not know you took that job from Carlotti to give to me, or that my promotion was supposed to be another thing that was to be hers, if you want to give them to her. I’ll step down and resign. today, so she can have the job. I don’t want to steal anything from anyone, it’s not who I am,” Wynta stated and stood up as if to leave the room.
“Enough Wynta, sit down. Carlotti was never in line for that job. She doesn’t have the education or experience to ever have a job in the marketing department. Just stay seated we’ll get to the bottom of this here and now,” Edward told her.
She sat herself back down. “I can actually do that for you, Edward,” Wynta told him, “I have a camera inside my office, that’s not part of the building’s security system. Which caught everything audio and visual.” She retrieved the USB and put it on the table. “Everything about today’s argument, oh I’m sorry, the apology from Carlotti is on this recording.”
“She can’t do that,” Carlotti snapped. “That’s probably doctored to suit herself and go against me, and it’s not company policy. That breeds deceit, pack members not trusting each other.”
Winter nearly laughed, “I’m not a pack member, Carlotti, as you do so like to point out. I am a rogue and my stench offends your sense of smell if I recall. So not only do I have the right, I must protect myself at all times. From this very kind of thing, that would see me get unfairly fired or bring harm me by way of an Alpha’s order even, and to protect myself from those that would find ways to tamper with evidence, I do this to prove my innocence only.”
“I’d like to see it,” Dwayne stated.
“I second that.” Jared nodded.
“Finally, we’ll get to the truth of who said what in this allegation,” Edward stated and picked up the USB.
Wynta sat and watched, a smile on her face. She knew there was no apology. She was also curious as to what Jared himself was going to make of this so-called apology, when, in fact, it was Carlotti ripping her a new one and claiming Jared was her secret boyfriend. That it was Carlotti who had thrown everything from her desk and struck her first..
She watched Edward pause the video as Carlotti tried to stand up and leave the room, as she was heard calling Jared her secret boyfriend, only to have both Jared and Dwane’s hands land on her and stop her, “Oh no, you don’t get to leave this room when you state something like that, I want an explanation as to why I’m suddenly your secret boyfriend. I don’t recall that.” Jared grated out.
She watched Carlotti glare at her and just knew that she-wolf was going to be fumingly mad and likely to come at her again, but she wouldn’t do it in this office, not when she was likely to be punished by her own Alpha. It amused Wynta to watch Carlotti sit there and try and backpedal out of what she’d said.
“I was just trying to put her in her place. She got both of us punished, lashed and for no reason, she was the one to walk away. It wasn’t either of our faults.”
She could see Edward was very unhappy, as was Ernesto, the girl’s own stepfather was sitting in his chair shaking his head and appeared not to know what to make of the situation.
“There is more Edward. I’m certain you can deal with Carlotti and her claiming to be Jared’s girlfriend later, but you’ll also see in the rest of the video I didn’t really believe it, and yes, I may have antagonized the woman about what I thought was a lie, but she struck me first, I simply reacted on pure instinct, as any rogue would.”
Edward nodded, “All right, let’s just watch the rest of it, and we’ll go from there. Though I have a feeling already Wynta, you will be exonerated.”
She nodded and murmured, “me too,”
The footage was started once more and everyone got to see Carlotti s***h everything off her desk and onto the floor, and Wynta go to pick it up, only to have Carlotti come at her, threaten her and slap her, stating she needed three slaps, one for every lash she’d taken. And Wyntal react on instinct. All of her marketing team coming into the room to break it up, and Carlotti leave. Yelling about she’d be fired.
She could see daggers in Carlotti’s eyes, as she glared at Wynta now, and Wynta just shook. her head. She didn’t understand the anger not when it was all Carlotti’s own doing, that she’d simply gotten caught out in her own lies. “May I go Edward?” She asked, “now that my name has been cleared.”
“I prefer that you stay here and listen to the punishment she will receive.” Edward told her as he shut down the video footage and sighed as he leaned back in his chair and looked disappointedly at Carlotti.
“I’m not really interested in what that is, and I have a lot of work to do, Edward,” She stood, So please excuse me, I’ll go back to my office now.” And she strolled out of the boardroom.
Jared
He sat in that boardroom and watched as Wynta just walked out of it without a seeming care at all, she didn’t answer to anyone, and getting up and leaving after she’d not only just proved her own innocence. She’d turned the tides of whateverbattle she had going on with Lotti. Though a part of him wondered if Wynta had even known Lotti was targeting her. Which he now had all the evidence that Lotti was in fact doing just that.
Wynta had just helped to confirm all that herself, without him even having to ask her anything about her and Lotti’s relationship. A part of him wanted to smile for the way she’d handled everything today, though another part of him wondered if she’d have been like she was, calm and confident in coming here to prove her innocence, if she didn’t have that footage of her own office to back her up?
But then again, she was a rogue and, from the way he’d just watched her not only interact with his father’s unit but spoke to his father, he had a feeling that, what he’d just seen, was simply who she was and nothing more. He also realized now that his father and his unit were all expecting this from her.
They’d chuckled along with her at that comment of 20 to 0. That meant to him, she’d managed to get out of 20 mating ball invites over the past five years, which he knew was four a year, his mother did hold them every three months, and he could only guess she’d been invited to every single one of them. Some he knew to be tailored to her so she couldn’t refuse, and yet his mother had told him she’d gotten out of them.
Though now, as he sat watching her walk away from this room, there was a slight limp, ast she compensated for the pain in her knee, which had likely been aggravated by kicking Lotti, putting a full strain on it. He thought about that very thing, Lotti had actually staggered back and hit the wall from that attar
He wondered just how strong Wynta was, did she work out in the human world somewhere, or had it all just been pure rogue aggression, which, even though she was wolf-less could see adrenaline pump through her body in a matter of seconds and add to her normal strength; that was a curiosity.
He moved his eyes to his father as Wynta walked out of sight and found his own father just sitting watching him. There was a slight smile on his face, as he leaned back in his chair, all casual like; watching him watching Wynta walk away.
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