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    Harper.


    I am dead tired and so hungry I think I''m going to die. I didn''t have breakfast this morning because I woke upte.


    There has been a discussion on an important business deal, so Gabe has been going to the office earlier than I do. I didn''t sleep well at night, so I totally missed my rm.


    Lilly has settled at school and even though I still manage to take her once in a while, most of the time her driver is the one that drives her to school. We still have dinner together every evening though. And Gabe still makes sure toe home before she goes to bed.


    As for my rtionship with Cabe, let just say it''s been a bit strenuous. Don''t get me wrong. he hasn''t been cruel or anything, instead, he''s been the opposite, which does surprise me. It surprises me because it''s so unlike him.


    I keep expecting to see the man I married years to show up, but he''s nowhere on the horizon. Hell, I keep expecting to see the man that came to my apartment months ago, guns zing, and throwing out threats like they were truths, but he''s nowhere to be seen.


    It''s fucking confusing. I mean, where did that man go? He was cruel towards me for three straight years. Right up to the day he divorced me. What am I supposed to think? Feel?


    It''s been years since then, people change. That small voice whispers in my head.


    I really do want to believe that, but can a cheetah change its spots? You see where I aming from, right? How hard it is for me to just ept that he''s changed.


    Forcing those thoughts away, I stand up when my stomach grumbles for the millionth time. couldn''t do anything about the doubts in my head right now, but I could do something about my hunger.


    "Going down for lunch?" Christopher asks when I get out of my office and pass by his desk. "Yes," I smile. "Do you need me to bring anything?"


    "Nah, I''m good. I''ll have something delivered for both me and the boss man," he replies and I nod my head before leaving.


    Christopher takes care of everything for Gabriel. A part from learning, sometimes I wonder why I''m even here in the first ce. I was to be his other secretary, but most of the time think I''m Chris''s secretary,


    Maybe I''ll talk to Gabriel about it. I don''t for one second look down on being a P.A but I just don''t see how being a secretary will help me leam to run apany.


    I already had some new ideas about Unity Ventures that I was dying to implement. Unity Ventures was a real estatepany. It was mainly sought after because we were good at buying and selling prime properties. Back then, most properties were managed by ourpany. It was rare to find a selling property that didn''t have ourpany''s name. Since I am an interior designer, my idea was to expand Unity Ventures once I had it. I couldincorporate my services and maybe extend it to architectural services and building and construction. That way we would be all rounded. We wouldn''t just be involved in selling properties.


    The ideas I came up with excited me. I me that same excitement for making me so lost in thought that I failed to notice the screeching woman that was on a direct warpath towards me.


    "You bitch! This is all your fault."


    I look up startled and taken by surprise to find a very unkempt and distraught Milly ring at me with bloodshot eyes.


    "Eh, what exactly is my fault?" I ask, sizing up her disheveled condition.


    The put together, holier than thou woman I was used to, was nowhere in sight. She was in a hoody and sweatpants. Her hair was in a messy bun, and it looked greasy and thin. It also looked like it hadn''t been washed or brushed in a long time.


    Her lips were chapped, and her eyes had bags undemeath them. It''s like her magic had wom off and long gone was the beautiful woman I knew and in her ce was the ugly-wicked witch of the east.


    "You got me fired!" she screams, her eyes shooting daggers at me.


    Huh. So the reports finally came out.