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36 // Waterworks
“Hi, this is Anita Simmons, and I can’t take your call right now. Please leave a message and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can. Thank you.”
Meryl was calling Anita for the nth time now in the past two hours. She was the only person left in the building, and she had to lock up. On a daily basis, it was Jorge, MJ, or Anita that locked because they were always the last people to leave the building. Since all of them were out of the country, it was her responsibility to lock up.
However, she did not know the passcode to set the alarm, because it changed on a weekly basis, and the only people who knew about it and got an update each time were MJ and Anita since Jorge barely came to the main office. MJ Billings did not trust anyone else but Anita in the entire building and thus shared the password with her.
Although Billings Corporation had tight security and there were literally cameras at every single corner, she could n
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