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Abruptly, the brunette lifts her head, and her eyes soften as they land onakin to sympathy Oh, God What does she know that I don’t? She shoves off the desk and abandons her coffee, heading toward me as if she is on a mission

She sits next to me and motions to the unfriendly receptionist “Carrie says you’re my replacement”

I’m stunned She’s the one who made the mess all over the desk? “I … uh … am?”

“Yes,” she confirms “I’m Natalie Mr Ward firedTerrance do it Bastard didn’t even have the courage to look at me eye-to-eye I have two kids at holistens in her brown eyes “What am I supposed to do now?”

My gut twists “I’m sorry I don’t knohat to say”

She swipes at an escaping droplet “I’m sorry I swore I wouldn’t cry I didn’t want to coive me my severance until I did exit intervieo years and I was turned into a paper file in tords ‘You’re fired’ I just er apart for a coldhearted snake”

“What happened? Why did he fire you?” I’m almost afraid to hear the answer

“One of my kids is sick, and I was distracted and made an error It made him look bad and he fired me”

I was right I didn’t want to know “Because you made a mistake?”

She sniffs “Because I one” She squeezes ht if I didn’t”

A shiver chases her touch upis off Me Her Mr Ward I’m not sure “Can he do that?” I ask “Fire you for si him look bad?”

“There’s so the company reputation, and, let e ti should be done about it, but I don’t have the strength to fight hiht for my kids”

I resist her claims, and I am shocked at how badly I do not want hteous jerk I’d assumed he would be Thatmy life has always drawn precisely that kind ofAnd if he is, my attraction to hi

It’s also the start of a falove of power of one of these men and then smashed beneath the shoe of their contempt

I inhale and stiffen my spine Not this tiet you your job back, but I’ll try to get you justice I’m a reporter I’ll write a tell-all and expose hiather facts If you have things I should look for, then call me”