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“I hope Joshua passed on the copy of The Glass Darkly I picked up for you? The first of the first”

Fat Little Dick has a huge bookshelf filled with every B&G release Each book is the first off the press; a tradition started by his grandfather He loves to brag about them to visitors, but I once looked at the shelves and the spines weren’t even cracked

“You picked it up, eh?” Mr Bexley orbits around to look at Joshua “You didn’t mention that, Doctor Josh”

Fat Little Dick probably calls him Doctor Josh because he’s so clinical I heard soot particularly bad at Bexley Books, Joshua ical removal of one-third of their workforce I don’t kno he sleeps at night

“As long as you get it, it doesn’t matter,” Joshua replies smoothly and his boss remembers that he is The Boss

“Yes, yes,” he chuffs and looks down ain “Good work, you pair”

He gets into the elevator and I look down at my shirt All the buttons are done up What could he even see? I glance up at theand can faintly see a tiny triangle of shadowed cleavage

“If you buttoned it any higher, ouldn’t see your face,” Joshua says to his cos off

“Perhaps you could tell your boss to look atoff

“He’s probably trying to see your circuit board Or wondering what kind of fuel you run on”

I shrug on my coat “Just fueled by my hate for you”

Josh’s mouth twitches once, and I nearly had him there I watch him roll down a neutral expression “If it bothers you, you should speak to hiht, desperately alone?”

Lucky guess on his part? “Yes Masturbating and crying into your pillow tonight, Doctor Josh?”

He looks at the top button of my shirt “Yes And don’t call me that”

I sn a bubble of laughter We jostle each other in an unfriendly way as we get into the elevator He hits B, but I hit G