PERKS OF THE POSITION
I leaned over the marble blotter, my shadow completely engulfing her, my hands gripping the edge of her privacy barrier until the glass creaked.
"Tarek Al-Sayed, Veronica?" I rasped, my voice sounding like broken glass grinding together. The unhinged jealousy in my throat was a physical taste, hot and metallic.
"You spent your vacation negotiating with a Cairo cartel syndicate? You brought a foreign sovereign principal into my penthouse without a single byte of consultation?"
Slowly, the typing stopped.
Veronica rested her hands flat against the desk. She didn't lift her dark sunglasses. She slowly tilted her head back, looking up at me through the pitch-black lenses, her face an unreadable,
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