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“Well, Lovely Luce, it’s been a pleasure as always I will see you soon, no doubt, after your next online auction”
“Bye” When he disappears into the elevator, I turn back to my desk, my face automatically faded to neutral
“Absolutely pathetic”
I make a Jeopardy! buzzer sound “Who is Joshua Templeman?”
“Lucinda flirting with couriers Pathetic”
Joshua is ha away on his keyboard He certainly is an iratified by his frustrated backspacing
 
; “I’m nice to him”
“You? Nice?”
I’m surprised by how hurt I feel “I’m lovely Ask anyone”
“Okay Josh, is she lovely?” he asks himself aloud “Hmm, let me think”
He picks up his tin of mints, opens the lid, checks them, closes it, and looks at ue like a mental patient at the medication
“She’s got a few lovely things about her, I suppose”
I raise a finger and enunciate the words crisply: “Human resources”
He sits up straighter but the corner of his mouth moves I wish I could use rin As the police drag oddamn you