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I’m not going to lie to myself, I feel bummed that they’re cutting the vacation short. I mean, it’s the only time in years that I didn’t have to worry about anything bothering me in my personal life. It’s the first time that I’ve let loose, relaxed, and enjoyed myself. And there is a part of me that wishes it will never come to an end, but I also know that wishes like that don’t ever come true. The island still sits in the back of my mind like a bright, unfinished dream—warm sand, easy laughter, the way the four of them looked at me like I was something worth protecting instead of something to tolerate. Shaking my head as if the thoughts will fall right out of it if I shake hard enough, I console myself with the simple truth that they wouldn’t have pulled the plug unless it mattered. So instead of acting like a baby because my vacation got cut, I can be a fucking adult. I can bear with them instead of being selfish. They must have their own reasons, and judging from the way they
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“Liesel! Liesel!” Her assistant called, the sound of her voice so loud that Liesel had to shoot her a glare to keep her from screaming anymore. “You’re not going to believe the mail I just got.” Claire said, looking at Liesel.Liesel’s mouth opened, but before she could get any words out, the baby she was crying bursted out crying, the sound of the wails so loud that it echoed through the large building.“Oh No.” Liesel groaned as she walked around, rocking the baby. “I just got him to sleep.” She added, shooting Claire a stern look, and Claire doesn’t need a soothsayer to tell her why.The house had been peacefully quiet until she came racing into the living room because she wanted to tell Liesel about the mail her team got.“Sorry.” She muttered, her regret evident in her voice and on her face, but Liesel only brushed her off as she kept pacing the large living room.The last thing she wanted was to wake Selena, she knew how hard Selena had been working, and that was one of the reas
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A full week had already slipped by, and Elena still had nothing, and every draft she forced onto the screen felt thin, clumsy, and embarrassingly inferior to the proposal that had first caught Liesel Taylor’s attention.“What am I doing?” She muttered to herself, “why can’t I think of something a lot more tangible.” She said as she ran her fingers through her hair.Her stomach growled, and it wasn’t until then that she realized that she hadn’t eaten anything when she left the house this morning. Marcus had prepared something for her, but she had been too skeptical to eat it.What if he forgot about her allergies again, and added kiwi to the food? The thought was ridiculous, especially since she knew that Marcus wouldn’t make that mistake, at least not after almost killing her last week.But there was also a part of her that welcomed the unsettling thoughts that Marcus had most definitely forgotten about the incident that had almost taken her life.Elena couldn’t help but think about t
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Two days had passed without a single word from Elena Max. Liesel sat at the long conference table in her private office, a stack of project folders open in front of her, but part of her attention remained quietly fixed on the silence.She already suspected the reason for the delay, there was a huge part of her that knew that Elena must be losing her mind trying to come up with the kind of proposal that would impress her.The mole she had planted in Elena’s company had told her that Elena didn’t go to her office yesterday, and although that spoke of something bigger than trying to avoid working, Liesel knew that if Elena could pay her way out of this pinch she was in, she would have done it.Thankfully, Liesel doesn’t accept bribes, and every single person she had worked with could testify to that.Liesel recalled the last person that had tried to bribe her into adding him as a partner; she couldn’t believe how low people would go just to get what they wanted.Thankfully, she had been
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“Two weeks? What do you mean ‘two weeks from now’ there is no way we can come up with a quality proposal by then. We don’t even have anything now! Give me that!” She hissed, the words grinding between her teeth as she grabbed the tablet from her assistant.Elena’s eyes racked the words, and true to what her assistant had said, Liesel had given her just two weeks to get the job done and submitted to her.How would she do that? What could she possibly come up with? Things were different when she thought she had more than enough time, but the fact that she only has two weeks had changed everything.What could she do?Elena knew enough to know that she couldn’t negotiate for a longer timeline, she hadn’t gotten to that point in their relationship yet.She looked at her assistant, who was already visibly shivering and a wave of disgust seemed to hit Elena as she thought about the fact that she had employed incompetent people.Not even one of them could come up with something showing enough
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Elena could hardly believe it, the bells in her ears kept getting potter and poster as she pressed her fingers deeper into her temple as if the gnawing ache she felt there would magically melt away if she kept rubbing it.The work she had taken such fierce pride in—the proposal that had finally drawn Liesel Taylor’s attention—had been written by the man she had spent years dismissing as useless.“No. It can’t be.” She muttered to herself as she closed her eyes only to open it ten seconds later. Her throat felt parched, but she knew taking water wouldn’t cure the parching.Alex had worked on the proposal? There was no way he could have done that, she knew it, but deep down, she felt as though the truth was trying to force her into believing it.But that was the one thing she didn’t want to bring herself to believe. She doesn’t want to believe that the man she had treated like he was nothing but trash, that the man she had dismissed and talked down on so much had been the reason Liesel
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