Fireside secrets

Blackmail

Third person POV

" I have to see Dean Conners it's urgent." Adam stood imposingly tall, looming over the Dean's secretary's desk.

" Oh, and you are?" Nancy Davis didn't take s**t from anyone.

She had been with the school for over 20 years and dealt with many angry parents over the years. She had a backbone.

Adam tried another tactic.

" You look pretty in that blue dress."

Nancy smiled at him, unaffected.

"Sit there." She pointed to a metal folding chair.

Adam retreated to the cold chair and pulled out his phone. He wasn't going to be treated this way. He began to text furiously.

I need Camden on the line, draw up a f*****g preliminary law suit towards Greenmire college on behalf of student January Holmes. Name Dean Angela Conners specifically.

Request restitution in the amount of 20 million dollars for pain and suffering as well as s****l battery by professor Eivan Bellstone against my fiance.

Do it now! Send it to the school immediately.

The response came back a few moments later.

Your fiance April Holmes? I don't understand, she's right here in your office looking for you?

Adam typed back.

No you i***t, I'm not engaged to April anymore, have security remove her. My fiance is January Holmes!

As Adam waited for the paperwork to come over the fax, he knew his secretary would locate all necessary fax numbers and information it would take to make this happen.

He sent another text then.

April, I'm done with you. If you persist on harassing me, I will get a restraining order against you. January has agreed to reunite with me. We will be wed immediately. So f**k off!

Next he sent a message to January.

The dean has requested that you meet her in her office Stat.

Then he sat back and smiled. January was a good girl, she wouldn't hesitate to run to see the dean once she was summoned.

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Eivan POV

I held my girlfriends hand as she made promises to me.

"I'm going to change, once I get back to New York, I'm seeing the doctor you recommended.

Eivan, I will change. I promise you I will do it for you." She lowered her delicate lashes as tears fell onto her cheeks.

Seeing her tears would have broken me once upon a time, but seeing her crying now, I only thought about January and what she told me.

You can't change for someone else, you have to do it for yourself....

Feeling my phone ping, I peeked at the screen.

It was Thomas.

Dean wants J at her office Stat.

Meet us there.

I stood up and made a move to the door.

"I have to go. It's work. Let's talk about this more later ok?"

She sniffled and nodded as her bony shoulders slumped.

I grabbed the door handle and rushed out the door. Even her crocodile tears seem manipulative now.

I think I'm done with Diana. I'm ready to move on.

My mouth curved in a full smile and I felt lighter than I ever have.

I'm not going back to NewYork.

I'm going to tell January that I choose her.

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January POV

I didn't recognize who texted me to see the dean. I don't get it why she wants to see me again? Maybe she found out about the laundry room sink?

As Tommy and I left his room, we ran into daddy in the stairway.

"There you are, I've been looking all over for you." He shook Tommy's hand.

" Son, you look rough. Sorry about the face."

Tommy shrugged.

"I understand. And sir, I assure you it will be long gone by the wedding."

Tommy pulled me tight, wrapping his arm around my waist posessively.

I knew he didn't want me to protest.

I grabbed his chin and kissed him quickly. He was definitely growing on me.

He stared into my eyes.

" Your so pretty." It was if daddy and the world disappeared.

I kissed him again.

My father cleared his throat.

" Sorry sir, your daughter distracts me." Tommy said as his fingers dug into my hip bone.

" Already?" I asked him.

He nodded. " Always."

Oh I wanted him too.

We managed to move away from eachother as Tommy took my fingers between his.

"Let's go see the dean." I said.

When we got to her office, Eivan was standing there staring at Adam.

Why was Adam still here?

Why was Eivan staring down at him like he wanted to kick his ass?

" Mister Wilson, the dean will see you now." secretary Nancy told him as she looked at all of us standing in the waiting room.

" Excuse me do you all have apointments?" She looked confused.

"I was told to come and see the dean stat." I said.

Adam put his hand on my shoulder.

" Give us a moment alone, then she will see you." he said, as he grabbed a slew of papers hot off the fax.

" Hey!" Nancy cried.

"Don't worry I'm giving them to Dean Conners myself." He turned and marched into the dean's office.

I felt something bad was about to happen.

" What is he doing now?" my dad said.

" He is here to get January back, he broke things off with ugly- uh I mean April." Tommy said.

Eivan pulled me aside as he looked me up and down, holding my shoulders as Tommy spoke with daddy, filling him in on Adam.

" I'm ending things with Diana tonight. I hope to see you afterwards. Will you have a late dinner with me?" he smiled, as he ran his finger under my bra strap.

My eyes opened widely at his words. "Are you sure that's a good idea Ivy? I mean...your JOB is on the line?" I whispered.

" January, I've never been more sure of anything in my whole life." He quietly assured me.

Oh boy, two men...no three that want me to commit to them. How did this even happen?

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" Are you sure about this? I mean I spoke with all three of them the same day that they arrived back at the main campus, this doesn't make a lick of sense Mr. Wilson."

Dean Connners scanned the proposed lawsuit that Adam joyfully presented to her.

" This will bankrupt the entire college, January understands that?" She asked, frantic worry in her tone.

" I assure you this can be the first of such lawsuits, I have confident lawyers that will destroy you as well Angela."

"Me? What did I do to January?" She gasped.

"You are the one in charge are you not?" he said menacingly.

" Here's what's going to happen, you are going to commute January's degree and provide her a diploma signed and dated for today. Then January will drop the lawsuit, or suits and...sign a non disclosure form ensuring that she cannot discuss the terms of her release from school early.

Furthermore, compensation in the amount of, say $500,000. will be deposited into an account for Miss Holmes by then end of business day."

Angela narrowed her eyes and began to understand Adam Wilson completely.

"This is blackmail, Mr. Wilson." She seethed.

"Well, I call it arbitration actually and...say that you were to set up the financial compensation account, and I was to foot the money.

I will also throw in another $500,000. to the college to start a scholarship program in Miss Holmes, soon to be Wilson's name."

" Of course all of this will be tied up in the iron clad non disclosure form." He added.

" Fine, you seem to have me over a barrel here. I'm not sure what kind of a monster that Miss Holmes has agreed to marry, but you take the cake asshole." Dean Conners said angrily.

" Oh, she hasn't agreed to marry me yet, but she will. I can be very persuasive. Now...that diploma?"