“Vee, nothing is wrong with my brain. I’m a little weak physically but other than that, I’m fine. I didn’t wake up a different person. Talk to me. Tell me what’s going on.”
“Well, I had an unexpected visitor that made it up to my floor without an appointment.”
“What?” He sat up and turned to me. “Made it up to your floor? The security on your floor stopped them, correct?”
“Yes, they did, and Laila almost threw her out of the window,” I chuckled.
Samuel’s glowering scowl could not be mistaken, he was angry and found no humor in anything I’d just said.
“Almost? Why didn’t she?” he deadpanned, “Who was it?”
“It was Jennifer Leathen, Barry’s wife.”
“Leathen’s wife! What the hell? And she made it up to your floor past the guards who have been given explicit instructions not to let anyone up?”
“Yes.”
“You’ve got to be freaking kidding me. I need to call the building’s owner. We should have sued them when you got attacked.”
“No, it’s fine. Laila handled it with security, but I did talk to Jennifer.”
“What did she say?”
I recounted the entire story of my meeting with Jennifer; from her accusation that we were messing around to me threatening her with legal action.
“She actually thought that you and Leathen had something going on?”
“Yes, she did. I shut her down using some colorful adjectives.”
He continued to frown.
“Baby, fix your face. It’s handled,” I reached out and ran my fingers through his beard.
“I want you to move out of that building.”
“Samuel! It’s good. It’s not going to happen again.”
“I know it’s not because you are moving your firm out of that building as soon as possible.”
“I have about three more years on my lease. I can’t just pick up and leave like that.”
“You can and you will!”
“No, I am not!”
“You are going to break that lease.”
“Break the lea…that’s absurd!”
“What’s absurd is them allowing Leathen’s wife up on your floor. I hope you were as irate with them as you are right now.”
“I told you it was handled.”
“It wasn’t handled. It was addressed. It will be handled when you move out. You should’ve left after you were attacked. You can move into the building I’m in. There are a couple of empty floors.”
“I can’t afford the floors in your building! I am still building my firm, Samuel. I don’t have capital to just throw around.”
“You are moving, and that’s final. You can either start the process yourself or I will.”