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She lifted Hope carefully into her ar to leave the car seat behind They rode the elevator up to the fifteenth floor where he held the door so she could precede hilass-and-chrome receptionist’s desk

"Good afternoon, Mr Alexander" The receptionist seemed startled to see theht

Kay followed him, conscious of the older woman’s curious stare They passed cubicles and small offices Most of them were empty, but they passed quite a few people in the hallho spoke to Eli or nodded

"This is my office"

He closed the door behind them and led her over to this desk It was a massive piece of ith two black leather chairs in front Kay sat down and shucked off her coat

"I need to go down to the HR departeht away since they’ll be reporting directly to o do whatever you need to do I don’tyou need me to do, just let me knoant to be useful In case you didn’t know, I’ Alexander men on task Just ask Nick"

Eli chuckled, his deep baritone washing over her, ruoose buestured toward a stack of files on his desk "If you’re deter you can do I need these to be put in alphabetical order so they can be filed Also, I need you to pull out the ones that have incident reports because I need to sign off on those"

Kay looked down at Hope, as regarding the new surroundings with interest "I should have brought her car seat after all I guess I’ll have to hold her on my lap"

"She can come with me What do you say, princess? You want to take a ride?" He held out his arms and Hope immediately leaned forward

"How quickly she deserts me for a handsoainst his shoulder "She knows I’"

Kay’s heart flipped over when he looked down at Hope so affectionately Hope had been up late again the prior night but a a cranky baby He looked like he belonged in a fashion azine She’d never seen hi Eli looked up and caught her staring, so she covered it with a cough