I always trust my instincts. That gut feeling, sharp as a blade and just as unforgiving, has saved me more times than I can count. But today, that feeling wasn’t a warning. It was a whisper—a strange pull in my chest the moment she walked into my office.“Ms. Carter,” Ben, my HR director, beamed like he’d just found gold. “Meet your new executive assistant—Alyssa.”She stepped forward, graceful, polished, sharp-eyed. Her eyes locked on mine like she knew me. Like she had always known me.I looked my hand with a cordial smile, contemplating when exactly I had asked for a new EA. Then I remembered, after the last one went off to get married, I knew I would need someone to take care of things when I am not around. But with all the drama that had been going on for days now, I just knew that I could not figure it all out like that. My brain was foggy but I did my very best to remember that I had somehow still asked for a new EA and now, here she was. But something about her presence felt
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