Rebuff

“Jacob there’s been a mistake,” Lindsey said, “I’m not going to have sex with you.”

Jacob froze, his cock poking from where he’d pulled down his waistband. “What? But you texted me.” He shook his head, pulling his pants back into place, tightening his belt. “I should’ve known better. You’re nothing but a tease, worse than that you-you tricked me into this closet and got me to expose myself. I-I should tell HR, or Alicia.”

He charged past barging through the door into the office. Lindsey followed after him. She didn’t remember that Jacob had managed to untie her shirt until she heard the gasps, Yasmin managing to snap another picture. She grabbed the loose ends, tying the shirt back into place.

Jacob was already in Alicia’s office while Lindsey charged across the office. She heard the last of Jacob’s words as she entered, “and then once she made me expose myself she laughed and said it was all a prank.”

“Lindsey, is this all true?” Alicia asked.

Lindsey’s tongue tied, “No, it’s all a misunderstanding. I was hacked, blackmailed. He hacked my phone and used it to message Jacob.”

“And this photo,” Alicia asked pushing Jacob’s phone back across her desk. It was the photo she caught a glimpse of earlier, the faked photo of her masturbating on Alicia’s desk. Now with a closer look, she recognized the item in question. It was Alicia’s water bottle. They all looked to where it sat on her desk.

“He faked a bunch of photos, to further **** me.”

Jacob scoffed, “Are you really going to buy all this?”

Alicia rubbed the bridge of her nose, “Do you have any proof? Have you gone to the cops?”

Lindsey sighed, “No. He deleted all the messages about the **** and covered his tracks. That’s where I was this morning, why I was late. I went to Nate, tried to explain myself after denying the blackmailer. I came to work instead of to the police.”

Alicia sighed, “No evidence, no police report, but plenty of evidence of this. HR is busy with the 7th floor, putting on a presentation. You’re suspended until they can look over it, probably tomorrow. But I can almost guarantee that you’re fired. I would pack your things on the way out.”

Lindsey was about to say something but stopped when Alicia used a tissue to pick up her water bottle and throw it in the trash. She obviously believed Jacob and Hubert’s photos. She hung her head and left Alicia’s office.

Everyone in the office looked over as Alicia’s door opened. Some were better at hiding it than others. She tried her best to ignore them as she grabbed her personal affects throwing what she could into her purse.

She glanced back at the office, a group of them were gathered around Jacob. Already gossiping about what happened, getting Jacob’s exaggerated version of events. She shuddered at the thought that Jacob would likely show the photos from Hubert to everyone who wanted to see. The elevator dinged as she heard Alicia holler, “Get back to work everyone!”

She made it back to the lobby of the building. “She’s headed out the door right now,” the security guard said as Lindsey passed by on her way to the exit.

Lindsey slumped down in her car. The day caught up to her, her marriage destroyed and now her career as well. She stared ahead as she contemplated what to do next.