“Oh yeah. Right,” she said.
“No, I mean it. How do you think Ginny survives?” he asked.
“Cause she’s a tough bitch that will eat you for lunch and spit out the buttons?” she said half joking.
“Damn right! Let’s get moving. I don’t trust traffic today,” he said and headed out the door.
Meg followed with briefcase and computer in hand.
They made it to work with ten minutes to spare. Ginny met them at the door, and showed Meg her new office. Meg set to work at getting settled into the new office. It wasn’t very fancy, but it had nice windows. She heard other people come in, but no one disturbed her. It was a nice change.
Thirty minutes later, she heard someone yelling. She ignored it, because she was deep in examining some papers for Luc. Next thing she knew, boxes were flying in through her doorway.
“What the hell…” she started as she walked towards the door. She almost made it to the doorway when a box flew towards her. She deflected it and then picked it up heading for the office that all the noise was coming from.
“God damn boxes in my office,” growled the voice of the man bent over picking up another load to toss.
“Hold it right there mister,” said Meg.
“Who the hell are you and why did you put all these boxes in MY office?” he shouted at her.
Meg was taken aback by the volume, and nearly stepped back when she remembered Luc’s advice. Channeling her inner bitch, she tossed down the box she had brought with her to the floor.
“I didn’t put these boxes in your office. However, tossing them in MY office is offensive, especially when they miss my head by centimeters,” she said in a voice that had as much growl in it as she could muster.
“Well, they don’t belong in my office. So pick them up and get them the hell out of here,” he shouted.
“I will do no such thing. If you don’t like the boxes in your office, you need to talk to Ginny, because she put them here,” said Meg.
The mention of Ginny brought the man up short. He stopped with a box literally in mid-air. He blinked, and really looked at Meg for the first time. Then he sniffed the air. Meg stood her ground with arms crossed.
“You… you’re… um. ah…” he stuttered.
“Are you always so articulate?” she asked with a bit of scorn in her voice.
“Um…. Margaret! From the number crunching shop,” he said finally dragging the face out of his memory. “What the hell are you doing here?” he asked.
“I work here. It is MY office in the back, and don’t you dare throw another box. In fact, you can come get all the other ones out of the hall and put them back in here until Ginny tells you where she wants them stored,” she said and turned on her heel to head back to her office.
The man stood there stunned silent.
When Meg got back to her office, she found Ginny and Luc leaning against the desk. Both of them were desperately trying to stifle their laughter. Tears were rolling down Ginny’s cheeks.
“And how long were you two listening?” Meg asked.
“From about the point where you growled ‘My Office!’ at him,” said Luc.
“We heard the boxes hit and came to look. We saw what was going on and decided to let you two settle it between yourselves,” said Ginny.
“Gee, thanks,” said Meg sardonically.
“Meg, if you can knock Kevin down like that you’ll do just fine around here,” said Luc coming over and giving her a hug. “He’s our edgiest employee, and if you can make him listen when he’s shouting, you’ve won,”
“He’s right,” said Kevin from the door. “I came down to apologize and pick up the boxes. I’m territorial about my office, and just blew my top before finding out any of the facts. After you left, I realized I smelled Luc on you and knew you must be his new mate.”
“I… um… Yeah. Business partner too,” said Meg. “Mate! No! um…. wait… yeah, guess he’s right,” she thought.
“Glad to see it didn’t come to blows Kevin. Boxes at ten paces can be viscous,” said Ginny.
“Why didn’t you tell me when I came in this morning?” asked Kevin with just a touch of temper in his voice.
“Cool your jets pup,” said Ginny in a growl. She waited until his shoulders slumped before she continued. “I was on the phone when you came in and by the time I was free to tell you anything, you were already throwing boxes.”
“Oh. Sorry Ginny,” Kevin said.
Luc just watched the whole exchange and smiled. Meg hadn’t over reacted to being called his mate. She had also backed down one of his more dominant employees without a fight. He was happy enough that he almost wanted to wag his tail.
“Shall we get back to work?” he asked looking at everyone.
They all nodded and Ginny and Kevin left the office.
“Are you okay?” he asked softly, touching her on the arm.
“Yeah. He just startled the hell out of me with the boxes, and I just let it rip after remembering what you said this morning,” Meg said.
“Okay, and are you okay with him calling you my mate?” he asked with trepidation.
“Um… it startled me at first, but then I realized that it is what I am isn’t it?” she asked.
Luc took Meg in his arms. “Yes, if that’s what you want,” he said softly.
“Yes, I believe it is,” Meg answered. “Now get out of my office. I have work to do, and your handsome ass is distracting me,” she said with a smile.
Luc smiled back and headed out the door to his office.
***
Meg quickly settled into a routine in her office. At first she didn’t think that there would be enough work for her with Alpha Wolf Tech. To be honest, there wasn’t a lot at first, but once the techs realized what she could do with information, her in basket began to fill. Plus, Luc was helping her with freelance work.
Ginny came down to talk to Meg, and heard her laughing as she hung up the phone. Standing in the doorway, she tried to figure out the reason for the laughter.
“Alright, I give. What’s so funny?” Ginny asked.