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She looked back down at the article

It’s hard to i, reportedly hty dollar, could settle down and becohly average woman refor line of professional and personal casualties Dante Romani leaves in his wake?

Average woman Yeah, that sounded like her life Even in her lie, where she was engaged to the hottest billionaire in town, she cae woman

She sed and looked back up at her boss’s blazing expression “This is horrible journalism Sensationalist nonsense, really All but an opinion piece, one ht say Fluff, even”

Dante cut her off, his black eyes hard, flat “What did you hope to accoossip you didn’t think would spread around to this degree? Or was it so you wanted?”

She stood, her knees shaking “No, I just…”

“You ht not be neorthy, Ms Harper, but I am”

“Hey!” The assessment burned, especially on the heels of the descriptor of her as “average” Of course, she had to ade was a pretty kind descriptor

“Did I offend you?”

“A little”

“I guarantee it is not half so offensive as coed to someone you have barely had four conversations with”

“Actually, I’m sort of in the same boat you are I didn’t expect for this to be in the paper I didn’t…I didn’t expect for anyone to ever find out”

“Be that as it may, they have And now I have It would be best if you were to see yourself out I do not wish to call security” He turned and started to walk out of the room and she felt her heart slide the rest of the way down

“Mr Romani,” she said, “please, hear ? She was pleading And she wasn’t asha if she had to, but she wasn’t going to let him ruin this