Her Secret Santa - Miley Maine Page 0,3

it. Otherwise, what will people think?”

I sighed. “You are right. That is why I need you so badly. You really are like my work-wife.”

She giggled and blushed. “That would make me your only wife.”

“True,” I said. “Or my only female significant other, but that is heading down the lonely territory I wish not to pursue right now. Thanks, Jill.”

I felt her eyes watching me as I walked down the hall to my office.

I hurried into my office and sat my things down. I sat down on the couch and reached for the phone, but then decided I would wait and bide my time. After all, that son of a bitch had been dragging his feet for months about finally getting on board with the new software we were producing. It was ready to go into the second phase already, but we were waiting on the capital from Alan’s group to go ahead with this. I could have thrown my own money at it, and I would probably have to, but it was far easier and more profitable to use someone else’s money. That’s the way it always was. Alan just didn’t see how it was profitable to him directly. He was older and he just didn’t understand the way that these things worked nowadays. Business happened much faster now than it used to. It was a changing world and you had to get with the program, or you would be left behind.

I pulled up SportsCenter on the television and waited for my meeting.

2

Julie

“Yes, this is the outfit I want to be buried in.”

I looked at the horrible thing I had just put together that was supposed to pass for a nice ensemble for my first day interning at Caplan Industries, and I wanted to hurl. It was mostly black. What was I mourning for? My new job if I didn’t put together the right thing.

I quickly took off the ridiculous outfit and scanned through my closet to find something else. I was not finding anything remotely close to what I wanted. Everything looked either too old or too young, too formal or not formal enough, too big or too tight, or too bright or too dull. What was I looking for? I had thought to buy something new for this, but then I figured it would be a silly thing to waste that much money on.

I finally settled on a mixture of red and black. It was eye catching enough without being too ostentatious. That was my thinking anyway and anyway I was so damn sick of rifling through my outfits. I just wanted to get there already and begin my first day of work.

I was supposed to meet with Tony Caplan first. He was going to welcome me aboard and show me where I would be working and what I would be doing. The previous rounds of the process had included a thorough round of interviews and background checks. I was ecstatic when I found out that I had actually been chosen. Me, of all the people. I couldn’t believe it at all. I was thrilled.

And everyone else was jealous as shit. Everyone at school tried to make my life a living hell, especially the girls. They all wanted to get close to Tony Caplan and working for a company like that as an intern would open up so many amazing doors in the business world. If I did well, I could even climb from within and go as far as I could see. That was the dream.

It was enough to make your head explode. And mine was about to blow at any moment. I felt like my brain was swelling and I couldn’t breathe; I was so damn nervous. I had to get a break. I needed to chill out. It was just a job. That was it. Tony had a reputation for being a fun, chill kind of a guy, but he also had a reputation for being a cutthroat businessman who didn’t take shit from anyone. He would absolutely throw me to the wolves if I pissed him off.

What was I going to do to piss him off, though? That was a crazy line of thinking. I finished getting ready and when I thought I was as pretty looking as I could be without overdoing it, I decided to quit. I felt like I was sweating already from the amount of work I’d put into this. Did I need another shower now? Shit.

My phone rang just

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