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- Authors: Iona Rose
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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Guy
“You are, as always, a creature of habit.”
I looked up from the steak and potatoes dinner I had been
enjoying in silence and couldn’t help but sigh at the woman standing
over my table. Without even bothering to ask or wait for an invitation, she
pulled out the chair opposite me and took a seat.
“I knew I’d find you here.”
I kept eating as I watched her. She knew I wasn’t pleased by the
interruption, but she was also one of the few people at the firm who wasn’t
fazed by my temper or irritation.
“How is that?” she asked, referring to my plate as she set her purse
down. “I’ve only ever had their carbonara here, and it was quite
underwhelming, to say the least. I came here with Paul, and he complained
for two weeks afterward about how overpriced food always tasted so bad.”
I continued eating, and at my silence, she eventually cocked her head
and looked at me.
“How mad are you that I interrupted your dinner and reflection time,
which everyone knows never to interrupt you on?”
I reached for my glass of wine and took a long drink.
“Remind me again why I can’t fire you?” I asked, and she laughed out
loud, her gentle voice ringing out across the room. There was a low
constant buzz of others eating and making merry as well, so no one else
paid her any mind.
“Because I’m your Human Resources Officer and your former teacher. I
do my job wonderfully well, but you also can’t be disrespectful or
dismissive of me like others because I was your favorite teacher.”
Sighing once again because she was absolutely right, I picked up the
menu and handed it over to her.
“Order the seafood pasta. It’s much better than the carbonara.”
“Alright,” she said excitedly and slipped down her glasses. A few
minutes later, the waiter was waved over, and she excitedly placed her
order.
“This dinner is on you, right? You pay me well, but surely not enough to
pay for this sort of place. I mean, I can, but what a waste. No plate of pasta
should cost anything more than thirty dollars.”
This immensely amused me, and upon seeing this, she realized it as well
and gave me a soft look.
“Alright, let’s talk about it,” she said, leaning back on the chair. “Four
secretaries in two months? That’s problematic, and people are beginning to
ask questions.”
“You’re making it seem like I raped them,” I replied. “All I did was fire
them for being so monumentally incompetent.”
“Yes, right, so you say, yet they all deny the mistake you claim they
made.”
“So, you’re saying I’m lying?”
“I’m saying you truly preferred Mr. Connerty, and now that he’s retired
and moved back to Poland, you’re not even trying to give anyone else a
chance to replace him. I know he’s been your secretary and a paralegal for
you for the last eight years, but you need to find someone else that you
actually like, or at least learn to like one.
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