Dominating Love ✓

[Chapter Seven]

Chapter Seven

Riley did everything he could to take the stress off of me but I was seriously annoyed with him at this point and ready to kick his ass. He screwed us on this and now I had to do damage control on top of everything else and they're giving us a limited time frame to fix everything.

He kept apologizing but I just shut him out.

I had a month to do this project and I would do it without them because I obviously couldn't trust my fiancé or brother to do shit right. I spent a lot of the next month at Rochelle's house and once again mine and Chase's relationship had to take a backseat to work because we just couldn't afford not to get it done.

Chase wasn't happy but he understood I think he was more concerned. I went to work and worked hard and then would stay late to get things done before going to Rochelle's and she would help a little and we would do some wedding stuff, I would either crash there or drag myself home at night and then get up and do it all again.

I knew he was holding his tongue because I was stubborn but there were times where he probably rightfully felt he needed to step in. I was barley sleeping and I wasn't really eating either because I just didn't have the time.

By the end of the month I had it done barley on time and had to fix a couple other minor things. I went through everything from the past couple years and it seems that Riley only started getting careless the past six months or so.

It only took another two weeks to get everything back on track, papers organized correctly and I went through the boy's e-mails and organized those files and made it easier for them to do shit right.

And people thought they were the brains behind everything and I was just there.

"Hey." Riley came in and I sighed, I had barley talked to him in six weeks.

"Yes?" I asked and he looked down

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to screw it up and I'm sorry that you've been killing yourself to fix my fuckups."

"It's not just you, Chase should have been paying attention because you two work closely together on everything and he knew what was going on with you."

"Don't blame him, it was my fault."

"Riley I blame both of you. You two were careless and irresponsible with the company mom and dad built. You guys told me not to worry and pushed me to take time off when I really shouldn't have." I put my head on my desk exhausted

"When was the last time you slept?" he asked

"I think I slept this morning." I reached for my coffee

"How long?" he asked me

"Like an hour or something, I'm fine." I finished it off and called for someone to please bring me more.

"Bry, when was the last time you actually slept?"

"What is your definition of actual sleep?" I talked as I worked

"Eight hours."

"That would be when Chase and I went away for the weekend." I filed that one and moved on.

"Okay, at least four hours." He compromised

"Uh when did we have that meeting with Mr. Tobison, I think I slept for like five hours not the night before that, but the one before that." He put his hand over mine as I moved to my computer to go through e-mails again.

"Brylee." He snapped

"What? I'm working Riley, I have things to do. Where the hell is my coffee?" I yelled