7 Cactus...No Grass

CEO Adler's office

In a large office surrounded by floor to ceiling windows, Noah sat behind his large mahogany desk on his black leather chair. Kneeling on the floor in front of him was his Marketing Director, Finance Director, Director of I.T and standing beside them was his secretary Aiden.

No one dared to even breathe too loudly for fear of angering the CEO even further. Today's news was spread all over the tabloids and Internet that CEO Noah Adler had given twenty million to an animal shelter and the funds had already been removed from his bank account.

"So tell me how did the news leak?"

"..."

"Then another question, how did funds get removed from my account to an animal shelter?"

Noah opened out his drawer and unlocked the safe that was hidden inside. He then took out his Nighthawk Firehawk black handgun and started to take it apart. Aiden stepped forward to hand him a cleaning towel. Knowing that they were all too scared to answer Aiden stood straight in front of Noah's desk. He hadn't seen the CEO this mad in a while.

"Sir the I.T department have looked into it, it seems we were hacked by a white wolf. He seemed to want to play a joke on us. The I.T department can't get through his firewalls and tried to stop the attack but he was too fast and removed all traces. As for the press again white wolf exposed it to the public so even know we are in no way able to take back the funds".

Noah's face didn't get any better with the report. Still cleaning his gun he looked at the three heads of department who were kneeling on the floor.

"Get out, take the twenty million from each department. There will be no raises until its back in my account".

"Yes sir".

The three department heads bowed and left very quickly. No raises were quiet fair seeing as they had made such a mistake. Noah finished cleaning his handgun and put it back in his safe.

Knock knock

"Sir, sorry I'm late".

"Mmm".

"I was at the boxing gym and some girl was there and she gave me quite the punch to the stomach. I haven't fought like that in a while. She can hold her own. pretty too".

Noah raised his head.

"Did you get her name?".

Even though Thomas was close to his boss he never showed this much interest in his stories so he answered quickly.

"I think it was a plant-like cactus no grass...".

"Ivy". Noah smiled.

"Yes, do you want to recruit her boss as a guard maybe"?

"No, I want more than that".

"Are you replacing me as your head bodyguard. I'm sorry I was late".

"Idiot".

Aiden stepped forward and put his hand on Thomas's shoulder to tell him to be quiet.

All of them have been long friends and have worked together for many years. They have been through tough times and near-death experiences with each other. Couldn't he tell that Noah smiled when he said the girls name its more than what he wants from the girl? She would soon be their lady boss.