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My sister had once insisted that she snored, but I was such a sound sleeper that I refused to believe it without solid evidence in the forital, despite the distaste I had with machines at that particular point in the space-time continuum

It was est in recent history It wasn’t altogether my fault I’d had fifteen jobs in the last two years Maybe partly but not wholly, the fates never failing to find an opportunity to kick me when I was down

There was the little stuff, like when the radio station I worked at a couple of months before switched formats I could have stayed if I kne to speak Spanish

Then there was the big stuff, like when the finance company I was excited to land a job at went into involuntary liquidation, on account of half the board getting fifteen to twenty years in prison for insider trading All beyond

I had been hired on at Fortress VPN by the founder hihtree to use, it was there It didn’t hurt that the boss in question, Tucker Croas smokin’ hot in a way that made my panties wet anyti I was hired as his personal assistant

He didn’t even make fun of my Aussie accent, which most of the others did, at least at first I’d tried to soften it so no one would notice, but apparently that wasn’t enough

Noorried about losing yet another job, and along with it my hot, nice boss to boot Showered, freshened and dressed appropriately for our casual office, I headed out with fifteen et there on time!

I stopped by Dunkin’ Donuts to buy h to share with co-workers, if only because I was in too much of a rush to make up my mind about which ones I wanted, so I just asked for one of everything I didn’t have to worry about rush hour on account of taking the bus, which was an advantage as much as a curse a lot of the time

I was also counting on the fact that, when he could be bothered to actually come into the office, Tucker was often ‘late,’ at least according to everyone else’s schedules, knowing full well he ithin his rights to do so as the boss It wasn’t like the place would fall apart without him

There was his partner Jack to oversee things And Tucker also made it a point to hire people who could work independently Which, innear endless rounds of online poker and solitaire until he decided he neededhe had actually come in that day

If this latest gig fell through, I was confident I could go on to a successful career as a card shark At least if the real thing was anything like the simulation

I scra the leather co a bit due to allit in time, I stared at the box of donuts on my desk My intention had been to share the that idea

Surely no one would notice if I had so them to others The trick was to make sure I could eat six of thery— so it looked like the kid at the bakery was new and had just grabbed the wrong box

I kneas a bit of a dickit in time to eat any on the bus, and desperate times called for desperate o by, the pilfered pastries would go straight to h-calorie, much overdue breakfast

Scarfing down the required a there weren’t any of those new, tiny cameras around, Ithe open box on the table The six re occupants of the box looked like the survivors in a lifeboat I tried to arrange them so that they covered more space, but no matter what I did, it still looked a bit ridiculous