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“In the e,” she said I wondered why she needed a“Why are you calling in the middle of the day? Is there a problem?” She could be such a witch

“No, Cassie I just wanted to tell you that I’ve re-hired Victoria Hart as the upstairsback on the first of July” I didn’t have confir to stay confident

“The blonde?” she said

“Yes”

“Why was she let go again?”

“There was ashe’d leave it at that for now I had yet to tell her that Vicki was carrying et involved in the lawsuit She would have been ruthless Now that it would be dropped, I would tell her about it in good time At least before the baby came I fully intended at this point to be a part of my son’s life “It’s been cleared up and we have had temps in and out of the house I don’t like that I prefer a stable crew”

“Makes sense,” she said “The one we have now is terrible anyways I told Karen to tell the agency not to send her back She made the bed with no top sheet yesterday!” I rolled my eyes

“Good then, it’s settled I’ll see you tonight”

“Looking forward to it,” she said She didn’t sound like she really was, but she said things like that so if I accused her of not being affectionate, she could throw it back in my face

“Okay then, have a good day, Cassie” I hung up with a soing to get to see Vicki again every day I hoped

Lastly, I called the payroll department

“Payroll, this is Lydia”

“Lydia, this is Mr Reigns” Lydia is another loyal e

“Goodsir”

“Goodfor me and I need it done quickly”

“Okay sir”

“Will you please figure up how o from my house staff in March, has o until the end of June?”

“Of course sir”

“Wait, there’s more After you do that, cut her a check for those hours and have it sent to her address by courier I’d like it done today, and the sooner, the better”

“Okay sir, I’m on it”

I hung up with her feeling satisfied that I was at least taking steps to rectify the dae I had allowed to be done to Vicki’s life I didn’t take precautions e had sex… I was more responsible for this than she was I was in a place of power and so that, but I had done it nonetheless All I wanted noas to fix it

VICTORIA

I had to spend an hour atforms to drop the lawsuits They were not happy with s to me about how he could blackball et another job They said I could sue him for harassment I had the proof in my belly I didn’t want to hear any of it I knew money hat they were most concerned about and it was theirs, not mine I still owed them close to a thousand dollars They hadn’t been all that worried about it because they assuet their money from the billionaire when this was all over and done with I apologized profusely, but the bottom line was that they couldn’t proceed without ot a job, they would be first on my list of creditors to pay They didn’t seem impressed with that, but it was the best that I could do

I went by Jason’s apartment after that He was at work, but I had text to ask his He was curt, but he said that I could I only really had clothes there I had left et thee bill would be one less payment I had to worry about God bless Liz

I got back ho My dear Liz had the craft room all cleaned out already before she left for work at ten a I was about to call and find out how s in storage and deliver them with no idea how I’d pay it noI went to answer it and a young man in a blue polo shirt that said, “Anderson Couriers” on it was standing there with an envelope in his hand

“Can I help you?”