Author's Note: One last chapter of build up...
All characters are over 18 years old.
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The Monday after her big cam show, Eve was feeling incredibly bored at the office job her father had commanded her to go to. The high she had felt when knowing that she was successfully manipulating those men into giving her more and more money had mostly worn off and she wanted to have that feeling again. Coming to the office and being 'professional' seemed awful by comparison, so she had decided to try to cause some trouble for fun. Not so much that her father would hear about it, but just enough to at least really piss her supervisor off.
She had worn an extremely tight-fitting and thin gray wool knitted dress that very clearly showed the shape of the crack of her ass, and her braless breasts and nipples. Technically, she wasn't showing cleavage or midriff and the dress wasn't shorter than she was allowed by the dress code she had been given after the last time she tried to cause trouble, but it still managed to show off everything none the less. She had paired it with plain stockings and cute black flat shoes so that when she had her coat on it wasn't blatantly inappropriate for an office environment. But once she was inside the building, she took off her coat and enjoyed the stares she received from men and women alike. She smirked as her supervisor, an older woman named Janet, saw her and obviously cursed to herself in frustration.
The fun was short-lived however, as Janet had a "special assignment" for Miss Larue and practically shoved her into a windowless back office by herself where she was supposed to "review accounts receivable" on the computer that was back there. It was obviously a ploy to avoid having anyone else see the young and hot socialite.
Eve fumed in the back room, hating this experience of 'corporate life'. She couldn't outright defy her supervisor because she knew that if she pushed it too much they could ultimately complain to her father. The dress code had obviously been hastily written just for her after one of her earlier days when she had worn a crop-top that showed her flat belly button with the cute dangling bellybutton chain she'd been wearing, and she enjoyed knowing that Janet would have to rewrite it again to prevent Eve from wearing this outfit a second time.
Eve had to write a report on what she saw in the accounts she was 'reviewing', which was obviously a ridiculous assignment that Janet had thought up in the moment to justify sticking her in this back room in the accounting department. She started to work on it half-heartedly, but then began to realize something...
In her haste to get rid of Eve, Janet had sat Eve down and unlocked a computer that had way more access than it probably should have. Eve had actually paid some attention to the accounts systems her father used when he tried to explain it to her, and she saw that she had been given a golden opportunity.
Anderson Engineering was fairly large, and it seemed like they had likely grown too quickly in some ways. There was a long list of payments to various vendors, which all seemed to happen automatically from this system. Eve could simply add a payment to another account, if she felt like it. Each payment was linked to a job and customer, but there was a surprisingly large pot of money that was just labeled 'Lab Supplies.' There were purchase reviews that she saw happening periodically for every contract, but that general fund had never had a review as far as she could tell.
What if... What if she just had 'Lab Supplies' purchase, say $20k that would go into her private account? She had paid to have it set up in a way that her father couldn't find it, so she was pretty sure that they would never catch her. Her understanding of Anderson Engineering was that they basically existed to serve her father's own companies, so taking money from them would essentially be taking money from him, right?
And what was the absolute worst thing that could happen? If she was somehow caught, her father might find out and cut her out of the inheritance. But he would certainly not let the issue go to the police and so there was no way she would face any legal trouble. No, if she was caught then the whole thing would be swept under the rug, and she could always fall back on camming like she had thought about doing. Even more embarrassing for her father, she could move on from a successful cam career to being an outright porn star. While she did want to keep the inheritance, her fallback plan also had a lot going for it...
And she was so, so bored. And mad at her father. And mad at Janet, and the entirety of Anderson Engineering.
Eve entered the few lines into the software, directing a payment to her account, and then waited.
Nothing happened. No alarms went off, no one came running in. The transfer said 'Pending' and she anxiously pretended to work for the next several hours while glancing back at that status every few minutes. Finally, in the early afternoon, the status updated to 'Complete.' Checking her own account, she saw that the money had just come in!
Eve felt such a high in that moment, and she wasn't even mad when Janet came into the back office late in the day with an 'update' to the office dress code, which Eve saw now required the nipples and buttocks to be 'properly covered and fully obscured' by the clothing. She immediately started looking for a new outfit that would technically meet the new requirements while still distracting any employee or customer who saw her...
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Garret felt better when he went back into the office that Monday. He still didn't know exactly how to get what he really wanted, but at least he did know what he wanted now. He knew he could still get sex easily enough, and that definitely helped him to feel good about himself. Maybe he would just copy Sean's strategy of running through as many girls as it took until he happened to find one who wanted him to have the power in their relationship. Even if it didn't work out, he'd have fun along the way.
His heart still wasn't in it for the business, but he kept things going like he had been for the last several months. He attended the start of several meetings, just making an appearance really since his staff were on top of things. He then did a cursory review of the reports of the status of each project but wasn't really paying too much attention. After that, of course, he did his usual review of the financials.
There were multiple levels of reviews of spending. Project managers reviewed their projects, the building manager reviewed Lab Supplies purchases in the old accounting system, and the accountants reviewed everything. There was a schedule for all of that in the admin system. But Garret also firmly believed in reviewing things himself and had done it every Monday afternoon for years now without fail.
