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Asher

It had been two weeks since I last stepped into this club. Work had kept me tied down, and I had no time for distractions. Running the company had been draining, and I had stubbornly refused to hire another secretary. I kept telling myself that I didn’t need one, but the truth was, I couldn’t find anyone competent enough to last. Most of the ones I hired this year didn’t even make it past a month. I had gone through close to ten already, and all of them failed in one way or another.

They came in with the idea of working for me as though it was some sort of trophy, but they couldn’t handle the reality. They never got to see me often because I made them report directly to Logan, and soon they got bored and careless. Logan had been forced to take on too much of the workload, and I was dumping too much on him. The company was running fine, but I knew I needed to face the fact that I needed a real secretary, someone competent.

I sat in my private lounge,waiting. For the past two
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