I had barely taken two steps when Cody's wounded, tearful voice floated after me again. "Ms. York, huh? And he said it so respectfully. Vi, I know he was trying to remind me that you're an arrogant CEO, while I'm just some poor boy who crawled out of the slums. Are you going to get sick of me one day and abandon me?"Then, I heard Violet call me back. "Scott!"I turned back around, resigned to my fate. "Yes?"She rubbed her temples. "From now on, when Cody is around, just call me by my name."I gaped at her. Was she still sane?Seeing how confused I looked, Violet added with a straight face, "Every time you call me 'Ms. York', you'll be fined 200 dollars."My body reacted before my brain could catch up. I snapped to attention and practically shouted, "Got it, Ms—I mean, Violet! Understood!"…The second I stepped out of the office, a bunch of nosy coworkers swarmed over, wiggling their eyebrows at me. "Mr. Colson, what's going on in there?"Even the head of the tech department
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