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Authors: Cerys du Lys
Tags: thriller, Contemporary Romance, romantic suspense, Erotic Romance, new adult romance, Romantic Mystery, modern romance
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Lucent showed preference towards ignoring it. More muttering and mumbling started after that, though. Complaints. Worries. Whose office would the culprits break into next? If the CEO's wife wasn't safe from corporate vandalism, who was? If...
"Enough," Asher said, loud and firm. "This isn't a schoolyard. We're not sitting on the jungle gym during recess, sipping juice from a box and nibbling animal crackers. I like the fact that we can all be a little more open with one another during our meetings, and I appreciate everyone's honesty, but we aren't here to gossip. This isn't a knitting group at the nursing home."
"What are we going to do about it, then?" someone asked.
Asher sighed. To be honest, he just didn't know. What should he do about it? Ignore it and pretend everything would work out in the end? He'd done that before he met Jessika, hoping that his life and his business, his wife and loveless marriage, his everything , would all fix itself if he just kept at it. Obviously that didn't work. He'd almost lost everything that way.
And if he took the opposite stance? If he went as far as putting a stranglehold on Landseer Enterprises and making everyone feel as if they couldn't move two steps without someone knowing about it? It was safer, yes, but safer for who? For Asher? For the company? It was safer for the money involved, and everyone who had a deep investment in Landseer Enterprises would prefer that he do everything within his power to maintain the safety of company profits. Asher thought he should be going along with that thought process, too, but he just couldn't.
Both ways involved too much risk. One risked the company and its assets, while the other risked his employee's happiness and their productivity. He doubted he could truly separate the two, either. The entire Landseer Enterprises business model revolved around happiness in a lot of ways. People went on vacations, they took trips, they wanted a break from their lives so they could relax and refresh themselves, then begin again anew. He wanted everyone to be on board with that and everyone to have a sense of it, too. When his employees were happy, they could better focus on bringing happiness to others.
"We're not going to do anything," Asher said; concerned mutters interrupted him. "Quiet. We're not going to do anything yet. We're going to do an evaluation of our current security measures and find out any potential weak points. Obviously we have a few. Jessika doesn't have surveillance cameras in her office, but there weren't any operating in that hallway, either. I have to believe that the person who entered while she was gone knew this."
"There's too much activity to try and account for all of it," Asher continued. "On every floor, at every hour of the day, even during the night, there's countless people walking the halls for legitimate reasons. I'm not going to punish them because of one or two people who have decided to cause a disturbance."
"Asher," Rob said. "Look. Listen to yourself. It's not a disturbance. This was a serious and disastrous event. Solomon nearly destroyed everything you have. Maybe you don't care. I don't know. I know that I care, though. I care because this is my job and I get paid. I don't want to see everything around me crumbling into dust because you don't want to bother a couple of people."
"I understand your concerns, Rob," Asher said. "I absolutely understand where you're coming from. It's not a disturbance to a couple of people, though. It's a disturbance to everyone. I won't let some rogue insider be the cause that. If we change, they've already won. They've destroyed us, whether we want them to or not. That's where I'm coming from here. Financial destruction looks a whole lot like the destruction of happiness and freedom if you spin it around and look at it from a different perspective."
"So," Asher added
"Enough," Asher said, loud and firm. "This isn't a schoolyard. We're not sitting on the jungle gym during recess, sipping juice from a box and nibbling animal crackers. I like the fact that we can all be a little more open with one another during our meetings, and I appreciate everyone's honesty, but we aren't here to gossip. This isn't a knitting group at the nursing home."
"What are we going to do about it, then?" someone asked.
Asher sighed. To be honest, he just didn't know. What should he do about it? Ignore it and pretend everything would work out in the end? He'd done that before he met Jessika, hoping that his life and his business, his wife and loveless marriage, his everything , would all fix itself if he just kept at it. Obviously that didn't work. He'd almost lost everything that way.
And if he took the opposite stance? If he went as far as putting a stranglehold on Landseer Enterprises and making everyone feel as if they couldn't move two steps without someone knowing about it? It was safer, yes, but safer for who? For Asher? For the company? It was safer for the money involved, and everyone who had a deep investment in Landseer Enterprises would prefer that he do everything within his power to maintain the safety of company profits. Asher thought he should be going along with that thought process, too, but he just couldn't.
Both ways involved too much risk. One risked the company and its assets, while the other risked his employee's happiness and their productivity. He doubted he could truly separate the two, either. The entire Landseer Enterprises business model revolved around happiness in a lot of ways. People went on vacations, they took trips, they wanted a break from their lives so they could relax and refresh themselves, then begin again anew. He wanted everyone to be on board with that and everyone to have a sense of it, too. When his employees were happy, they could better focus on bringing happiness to others.
"We're not going to do anything," Asher said; concerned mutters interrupted him. "Quiet. We're not going to do anything yet. We're going to do an evaluation of our current security measures and find out any potential weak points. Obviously we have a few. Jessika doesn't have surveillance cameras in her office, but there weren't any operating in that hallway, either. I have to believe that the person who entered while she was gone knew this."
"There's too much activity to try and account for all of it," Asher continued. "On every floor, at every hour of the day, even during the night, there's countless people walking the halls for legitimate reasons. I'm not going to punish them because of one or two people who have decided to cause a disturbance."
"Asher," Rob said. "Look. Listen to yourself. It's not a disturbance. This was a serious and disastrous event. Solomon nearly destroyed everything you have. Maybe you don't care. I don't know. I know that I care, though. I care because this is my job and I get paid. I don't want to see everything around me crumbling into dust because you don't want to bother a couple of people."
"I understand your concerns, Rob," Asher said. "I absolutely understand where you're coming from. It's not a disturbance to a couple of people, though. It's a disturbance to everyone. I won't let some rogue insider be the cause that. If we change, they've already won. They've destroyed us, whether we want them to or not. That's where I'm coming from here. Financial destruction looks a whole lot like the destruction of happiness and freedom if you spin it around and look at it from a different perspective."
"So," Asher added
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