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Her first sight of JR was his crestfallen expression as he watched her back out of her garage on Wednesday morning and then drive away without even acknowledging his wave. She had arrived home the previous evening around eleven o’clock and purposely done everything she could to hide her arrival from him. Had he not been on his patio when her garage door had started to open, he probably wouldn’t have heard her leaving.
She felt that their pending conversation would require more than the few minutes that she could have dedicated to it either this morning when she had to get to work, or last night when she was dead tired from her protracted bus trip home. She would explain that to JR in a text as soon as she got to her office. In fact, she would text him from the parking lot before she went into the building.
She had told JR that she wouldn’t come between him and his family, but on the trip home, she had considered whether his father not liking her would by itself constitute coming between his entire family. She was willing to discuss their options with him if he was willing to accept that she would not tolerate the disrespect his father had demonstrated towards her.
As Rockie entered the company’s parking lot right after eight-thirty in the morning, she noticed that all five of the visitor parking spaces were occupied. It was rare for all the visitor spaces to be filled, but even rarer for them all to be filled that early in the workday. The coincidence of them all being full today was not lost on her. She found a space further down in the employee parking section and sent a text to JR.
ROCKIE:Sorry that I didn’t have time to stop and talk to you this morning. I got in late yesterday and slept late as a result. I really do want to talk things over with you later today if you have time.
JR:It’s okay, I was just worried about you… Worried about us. Let me know when you want to get together, and I’ll make time. By the way, I love you.
She stared at his words for several seconds before replying, especially the last three words.
ROCKIE:I hope so because I love you too. We have some challenges to face, but I believe in us.
JR:Me too.
ROCKIE:I’ll text you later with a good time. I’m not sure how much work I’ll have to catch up on or when I’ll be able to get home, but I’ll keep you posted. I love you.
She shut off her car, collected her laptop bag and purse, and then got out of the car. As she walked towards the employee entrance, she pulled her badge out of her purse and clipped it to her jacket. She placed the badge against the reader at the entrance, but the door didn’t release as usual. She tried three more times before giving up and walking to the visitor entrance.
“Hi, Leanne,” she said as she approached the receptionist’s desk, “My badge isn’t working at the employee entrance. Can you buzz me in please?”
“Good morning, Rockie. Your badge has been deactivated. If you’ll give me a minute, I will have someone escort you to HR.”
“Deactivated, why? I was just on vacation…”
“I don’t know Rockie, I was just told to have you escorted to Human Resources when you came in. They’re expecting you, so I’m sure that someone will be right out to get you.”
“Expecting me?” she thought. She was due back from vacation today, but why else would human resources be expecting her. She hadn’t done anything wrong, and there were no hints of layoffs that she knew of. She would find out soon enough, because Valerie Roberts, head of the HR department had arrived to escort her.
Valerie was as friendly to Rockie as the first day that she had interviewed with the company, “Welcome back Rockie. How was your vacation? I understand that you drove to Texas with your boyfriend.”
“It was fine,” Rockie said as she was led into the office area. “Is there some problem that I need to be aware of?”
“We’ll discuss it once we get to the conference room,” Valerie told her, “but I don’t think it’s anything that can’t be worked out.”
Valerie led her to the HR conference room, where two people were already waiting. Karen Mason was there along with a man who Rockie didn’t recognize. Valerie closed the door before directing Rockie to a seat at one end of the table, and then took a seat on the side.
Once everyone was seated, Karen Mason spoke to Rockie, “I apologize for the surprise that you walked into this morning. I tried calling you several times over the past few days but only got your voicemail. I didn’t think leaving you a message on this matter was appropriate, so here we are.”
“Where exactly are we?” asked Rockie.
“Let me start by introducing everyone,” Karen said. “You know Valerie. This gentleman is Bert Garmeni, our chief legal counsel.”
Rockie nodded a greeting to the lawyer, but remained silent, waiting for someone to explain further the purpose for her being here.
Bert Garmeni began by sliding some papers over to Rockie and saying, “Miss Preston, here is a copy of your employment agreement with BWH. Do you recognize it?”
Rockie glanced down at the papers and said, “Yes, I recognize it. Why?”
“Do you recognize your signature on the last page of the agreement?” Garmeni asked.
She turned to the last page and said, “Yes, that is my signature, but again, why?”
Ignoring her question, the lawyer said, “If you turn to page four of the agreement and reference section thirteen, do you see the subject of ‘intellectual property’ mentioned?”
Rockie found the page and reviewed the relevant section. “Okay, so?”
“Miss Preston, it has come to the attention of management that you have developed intellectual property while employed by BWH which you have not disclosed to the company. As an employee of BWH, any intellectual property developed by an employee during their period of employment rightfully belongs to the company.”
Rockie was not to be intimidated so easily, “I have documented proof that all the development of the ‘Secret Chaperon’ application was completed months prior to my employment at BWH.”
“That may be true,” the lawyer said, “but what about your other project? The Dark Web tracking project?”
“That project has no relevance to BWH and what we do here. That’s like claiming my recipe for red velvet cake belongs to the company simply because I worked here at the time I came up with it.” She pointed to the employment agreement before her and continued, “Section thirteen limits intellectual property claims by the company to products or service of value to the company.”
“Actually, the clause reads, ‘products or services of value to the company as determined solely by the company’. Have you presented your product concept to anyone at BWH for that determination of value to be considered?” Garmeni asked.
Rockie remained silent, so Karen stepped in, “Rockie, do you know what ‘BWH’ stands for?”
Rockie smiled and replied, “It stands for ‘Brandt-Wallace Holdings’. BWH is a joint venture of Brandt Consulting and Wallace Holdings International.”
Karen continued, “Under the terms of your employment agreement, BWH could terminate your employment effective immediately.”
Rockie stood and placed her laptop bag on the table and placed her employee badge on top of it. “Unless I quit first. Thank you for the opportunity. Do I need an escort out of the building?”
Karen smiled and said, “Not so fast, Rockie. There’s someone else who wants a few words with you.”
As if on cue, the door to the conference room door opened. Patty Brandt walked in, followed by her husband. Without any direction from the new arrivals, Karen, Valerie and Bert all rose from the table and left the room.
Rockie stood in place beside her chair as she watched two people enter and three people exit the room. She remained standing as Patty and Bobby took seats on the opposite side of the table. They looked over at her and just smiled.
“After the news I just received, I’m not surprised to see you here,” Rockie said to Bobby. She turned to Patty and said, “but your being here is disappointing. If you have the capacity for telling the truth, please tell me if JR knows that you are here.”
“JR does not know that we are here,” said Patty. “We thought that you had broken up with him anyway, so why should it matter to you?”
“So, if you believe that JR and I are a thing of the past, then your vendetta against me has nothing to do with your fear that he would spend his life with someone like me. It’s against me regardless.”
“Vendetta?” asked Bobby. “Do you think that this is about us not liking you or something?”
“You have made your opinion of me quite clear,” she said to Bobby, and once again turning to Patty she said, “but I thought that you liked me, or at least respected me.”
Bobby and Patty glanced at each other before Patty nodded to urge him to speak, “Rockie, I apologize. I obviously did not make my opinion of you clear, because if I had, you would know that I adore you. Patty and I didn’t raise dumb children. Even if I doubted JR’s judgment regarding the two of you, which I never have, I know that Katie’s protective nature towards her brother has never been wrong where the perception of the girls he had dated is concerned. Katie idolizes you, and that alone would be enough for me. However, I also think you’re bright, beautiful, funny, compassionate, brave, loyal, and possess more integrity that I would have expected from someone who had the hardships in life that you have had. I also recognized that this isn’t the whole you, is it? If I have seemed distant or not as welcoming as the rest of my family, it’s because I have had the opportunity to see the shadow.”
“Shadow?” Rockie asked in confusion.
“Please take a seat,” Bobby said, “and I’ll try to explain.”
Rockie silently took a seat across the table from the couple and waited.
“When we learned of JR’s interest in you,” Bobby began, “I spoke with Karen Mason to learn what I could about you. I don’t apologize for that, and when you have children of your own, you will understand.”
“I understand now,” she said. “I’m okay with that.”
“Good.” Bobby continued. “I understand JR already told you, I had no reservations about adding your profile to the access system for the secured area of our house, but I neglected to do it before your arrival, and then it was too late to complete it before the holiday. I saw no harm in delaying things until this week, but I did authorize a background check on you in preparation for profile data entry into the system. That’s where your shadow appears.”
Rockie nodded her head in understanding and said, “You saw only what I wanted you to see…”
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