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While she never spoke to lare or anything, but it was thoughtful and I didn’t like the attention

That weekend I let Granny in on the news of ratulations," she cried, literally "Finally soood luck has come your way! You deserve it"

Yeah, except luck was called Borden, and I wasn’t sure I deserved the job It wasn’t as though I had applied for it and hadroceries and my stomach was full So it didn’t matter how I ended up with the job, the truth was it orth having I could endure Borden because, even if he was at ti I wanted to smash his head into an ice block, he was tolerable too

And it wasn’t like I was in a rooe of his good looks and it eased the annoyance more times than I could count

The second ent by

Then the third

Then the fourth

Until the kiss at the end of the day was a robotic gesture that I did without thought or care And dare I say I stopped holding my breath when my lips touched his cheek because his scent was nice and non-threatening

I learned to discern Borden quickly being in that room with him for so many hours in the week I sensed hishis civil hout the day And during his angry fits, he’d fill up a bowl of pistachios on his desk and eat every single one of the out loud who to fire He’d trash the roo the poor e allon and hated coffee

"I can’t stand the s to the plastic cup of coffee onbeans, you know that?"

"Coffee beans, Mr Borden," I icily replied

"Beans are fucking beans, Ele time I’m in here with my cup of coffee?"

"If the putrid s coffee in the office

I knew that he was usually happy after a workout because he’d cos with an extra oo over his shoulder On one particular occasion, I’d stepped into the office in thehis top behind his desk, fro sleeved sweater Just before he’d thrown it on, he turned tome enter, and his blue eyes looked alive I’d nearly had a heart attack at how huge he was Tattoos took up alodda you like?" was the first thing he cheekily asked