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know you better, I’d take that negatively.”
    “But you do know me, and even if you didn’t, what would be there to take offense to? I think it’s hot. So, details, how was it?”
    “That’s my business.”
    “Come on. You know, even right now, he’s probably off with one of his many other flings. You got him for that time. Tell me. Is it worth me going for it?”
    “Off with whom?”
    “Oh, you didn’t know? He left on a vacation this Friday. Should be back about lunchtime, supposedly. Very sudden, it seemed. Not too long after you left, he headed out. Heading out to some resort, I was told.”
    “Oh, yeah, to Dos Brisas. He loves that place.”
    “So I understand. Anyway, I figured you would be trying to hightail it over there since Friday seemed so very fun for you. So…since the big boss isn’t here, how was he?”
    “Again, I say that’s not your business. If you want to try for him, go right ahead. I wish you the best, but, trust me,” Tatiana continued, turning to Sharice with her own knowing smile, “you won’t make it.”
    “T,” Sharice sputtered, mouth opening and closing like a fish.
    “Don’t ‘T’ me. You shouldn’t have thought you could ask like that. I’m not some damn tart and you know it. The fact that you thought I was says a lot about you. If you were so interested in how he was, you should have gotten him before I did. Your loss. Now, by ten I’m going to need that Albertson, Albertson, and White report. Not a minute after, okay?”
    God must have been looking out for her because the elevator chimed and the door slid open. Still smiling, Tatiana stepped off, walking to her office with her head held high and a switch in her hips. She’d be damned if she’d that little twit ruin her day. They might have been friends before Friday, but now they were competitors and Tatiana wasn’t going to let that woman think she was going to win, even if it was a possibility.
    “Stop it,” she hissed at herself. Aaron would slap her silly if he heard her talking like that. She was supposed to think like a winner until she got Clyde right where she wanted him. Thinking she was going to lose to Sharice was not the route to go. She ignored it all. Sitting down at her desk and getting to work was the only thing to do.
    She had her head so far into work that by the time Sharice breezed in and out, much quieter than she had been on the elevator, Tatiana hadn’t really heard her. It probably worked in her favor, but she had barely noticed.
    Clyde’s schedule was an assistant’s nightmare. The man had anywhere from three to four meetings a day, time permitting, and she had to shift some here and there, depending on priority and what Clyde felt meant more. To add to it, he had trips, presentations, buyers, and merchants to deal with as well.
    It also seemed that her office took in his bitchy exes, who all seemed to want to come back to a place of honor with him. If they called her and asked enough questions, they’d get a chance to keep showing up wherever he was. At one time, Tatiana made a game of making several show up to the same philanthropist events. One time, Clyde had returned to work, quite obviously happy about his night with the three women, as he told his VP. That was in Tatiana’s first three months of working. She’d never done it again. Her heart just couldn’t take it.
    Now, having had him, her heart was finding it hard to talk to the other women, more so than she’d ever thought. Then she’d gotten a glimpse what she wanted with Clyde, and she had no idea what the reality was. Now she did know, and the thought that she was anything like those women ate at her. She wasn’t going to be like any of them. If she could reach through the phone and choke them all, she would do it. Beat the hell out of them and then sit back and laugh when they cried about their careers being ruined. She would do it for free. Gladly, because she would never be like them.

Chapter Six
    Aaron