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“Ah, give hier partner stretches in his seat “He never planned to coo to how messed up Stuart hen he did come back

Patrick breaks the h “So I’m officially off the hook At least my office fuck-up was also a set-up”

“I’lad you’re both on a leash now Makes my job easier”

“I am a happily married man That is the truth”

“As if we don’t have en

ough shit going on” I gru to sue us?”

“No fucking way It was consensual—apparently very consensual It’s why I never et back in his pants when he came home Ahhnd now she can’t ith him”

“So she’s pissed about Mariska?” Jealousy is a fucking night to think “I don’t have time to train somebody new”

“I thought you hated Nikki” His laugh irritates me

“She’s a terrible secretary, but at least we know her weaknesses” Filtering through my options, I land on one “Maybe if I talked to her”

“Won’t work This is ot Stuart all riled up, ran Mariska off She said she’s too humiliated to stay”

“What kind of teenage drama is this?”

“Don’t yell at me I tried to keep her out of their way”

Frustration twists inStar and now the Princeton office is a circus “I’ll talk to Stuart and see what he thinks”

“It’s possible if I asked her to stay, told her we need her, the office can’t run without her—”