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"I need you to fill out these for as et paid," he said, pushing soan to protest She in no anted hirateful he was dropping the whole scheue with you, Cassie We leave first thing in theand I have to leave here in twenty o, or leave them if you don’t," he said He turned back to his co as if he didn’t care what she did at that point
With a bit of a pout, Cassie placed her bags down, picked up the papers and walked out of his office Cynthia was gone for the day, as were an filling out the huge stack of papers She was only half finished when Max walked out of the room and paused at her desk
"Leave those in Cynthia’s out box She’ll be in for a half day toet to HR Meet me here by six AM on the dot We’ll be able to fly directly into Cordova with the coe first and dump soht restrictions" He was speaking to her as if she knehat he was talking about She nodded her head to let hier before he finally left
Cassie finished her paperwork, left it for Cynthia, grabbed her bags and headed toward the elevators She was tired and wanted nothing et packed, have a hot shower, and try to catch so at her apartment, she popped a dinner into her inning to drift off when her telephone rang She alht it may be Max with some last lad I caught you at home With this time difference, it’s almost impossible to reach you," her best friend’s voice calad to hear froot to check in more often so I know you’re still alive," Cassie said, overcome with excitement to hear her voice
"I know I’m a terrible best friend I’ve been so busy, and it’s really hard to get to a phone, but I haven’t been able to get you off ive you a call Before you giveood humored voice
"Okay, I suppose I won’t lecture you this tiet back here, be prepared for an earful," Cassie warned
"I have zero doubts about it How are you doing?"
"I finally got Max Anderson to agree tointerview and I know it’s going to givebreak," Cassie told her excitedly
"OhI can’t wait for you to tell ive up You’re theto have to tell et home next month," Kinsey said It took a fewho with me because I miss you too much for that," Cassie fired questions at her
"I’ now There’s still so much more work to be done, but thankfullyyou andho to come back over, but it will be for much shorter visits You’ll have to co city reporter You can get Pulitzer Prize articles written in places like the village I’ht tears to Cassie’s eyes They’d always believed in each other more than anyone else ever had She kneith her best friend back she’d haveto be the longest month she’d ever had to endure She didn’t want to tell her about the accident and have her worrying, so they chatted for several irls were crying as they hung up their phones
Cassie tiredly got to her feet and decided not to eat her pathetic dinner She climbed into her warm bed instead and fell asleep withinto be her first ride on a jet and she couldn’t wait
Chapter Six
The sound of her alared Cassie from a restless sleep She blindly reached out in the dark, taking several tries before sheup the obnoxious machine She turned over and quickly fell back asleep, only to be rudely interrupted by the buzzing again after only a few ged herself from bed and made her way to her small bathrooht would frighten her worse than if she saw a ghost
A hot shooke her up a little bit, but she was still gru up at four in the ht wasn’t helping