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"I don’t know, but I can’t spend the rest of my career as your assistant I have an MBA I have bills I live in a dumpy apartment I need to send money to my family I can’t afford to live on this salary forever"

"What if I got you a raise?" I asked softly She couldn’t leave as my assistant

"No" She shook her head "Everyone would know and they’d ask why It would look too suspicious All the assistants are paid based on a scale of how long they’ve been working at Maxwell Corp If I made more than that, people would want to knohy I don’t want people to think I’rand extra per year"

"What if it was more than that?" I asked softly

"Leo" Her voice sounded annoyed "I don’t even want to have this conversation I’"

"Fine" I snapped, annoyed, though inside I was pleased At least, Hannah didn’t appear to be a gold digger

"What about you? Are you planning on staying on? When you started you didn’t seem to want to be in Corporate A"

"I don’t know" I answered honestly "I’et ahead and I don’t like working under my father, but I do enjoy the corporate world a lot ht I would"

"That’s because of hed

"Of course" I responded and I knew deep down inside that I wasn’t lying

"So, do you like Los Angeles?" I sat back and stared at her curiously Hannah was unlike other girls I’d met She was beautiful, but in a ahts and feelings

"It’s cool" She spoke slowly "It’s a lot faker than I thought it would be, but it’s also a lot deeper than I thought as well Iclass people, it feels like a coo to different areas, it feels like some sort of plastic city with plastic people I’ around so many pretentious and fake people"

"I knohat you mean" I nodded "People here are plastic, even the ones that haven’t had plastic surgery"

"You feel that way, even though you grew up here?"

"I do" I nodded slowly "I’m lucky that my best friends are both cool They both have a rich dad, but they’re down to earth"

"Oh?"