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“I expected to be notified so I could stop her”

“She was already here when Martha alerted me”

Pressing her hands together, she looked over at her boss, Xavier Leigh: ie He put his hands behind his head, assessing her The one thing about Xavier was the fact he was a closed book No one knehat he was thinking, what he was feeling, and most of the time, you only found out seconds before he struck

“Well, she’s done and served her time”

“Was there anything you wanted from me?” Anya asked

He stared at her “What were you doing?”

“Typing up the letters you wanted so that you could sign them”

“You’re such a good worker for me, Anya”

She had gotten the job by accident

Five years ago she had been working for Xavier’s Industries as a receptionist at the front desk She had never known anything about the o, or by being advertised everywhere She’d heard he liked to date beautiful women, models, actresses, and such Still, she was co, a man approached the desk, and he was nice, kind, and she talked hi him upstairs

Anya wasn’t the kind of person to do things by halves She had learned as h still without seeing the picture of the guy who ran the co there she encountered Xavier Of course on the day she hadn’t known it was him

Then one day she was called into the office, and lo and behold, the man she’d tried to help was in fact the boss-man himself

“I’ me,” he said

“No” She said the word slowly Glancing around the office, she saw everyone just working noret it”

“It’s simple I was on my way into the office when you stoppedabout who I was, you siine my surprise to learn that you knew nant PA”