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"Yes, they’re already in your inbox I just--"

"And the files? What about those?"

"About halfway done I’ll stay late and finish the here for? Get back to them It’s five, for Chrissakes"

"Uet a word in"

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He raised a brow and then held out his wrist to look at his watch "You have threenow"

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"I--I never set out to hurt anyone or the company But I was in a pretty dark place at the convention There was this thing--I don’t want to get into it, but my family is kind of screwed up and I let itAnd I feel terrible that the coed into it so--"

"Ti me off He hadn’t taken his eyes off his watch the entire ti I sed

"Weiss, you just said absolutely nothing to me All I heard was ‘blah, blah, blah’" He held up his hand, opened and closed it like a quacking duck "Get back to work"

I sucked in a painful breath It had taken a lot to say all that I’d spent twenty et it out