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“Let her in.”
    I nodded my head and walked back to my office
where Sugar was smelling one of my roses. “Mr. Wolfe will see you
now.”
    She set my rose down and winked. “Thanks
sweetheart.” I watched as she sashayed in to his office like a
Latino seductress Barbie and felt my anger building. She shut the
door and I snapped a pencil in half that I had picked up. How
stupid could I be? Of course an attractive man like Eric would have
girls like her. I tossed the pencil on my desk, put my headphones
on and started typing a pleading that I had started earlier in the
day. I was printing the pleading when Eric and Sugar walked out of
his office. Sugar kissed Eric on the cheek and smiled
flirtatiously. “Let me know if you need anything else.”
    Eric nodded his head, “Always a pleasure
Sugar. Tell that alpha of yours I said hi.”
    Alpha? She winked at me as she walked out.
“Wish I had your job sweetheart.”
    I glared at her back as she laughed and
walked out of the office. I grabbed the pleading from the printer
and turned to hand it to Eric, but he was playing with the broken
pencil on my desk. “Bad day?”
    I handed him the papers, “I need your
signature on this.” He searched my face, but I kept it carefully
blank. He took a pen out of his jacket pocket and signed his name
in that perfect elegant script he had.
    He handed me the papers and frowned,
“Ciara…”
    I interrupted him. “You should straighten
your tie. You have a meeting in five minutes and I’m sure you don’t
want rumors spread around the office.” Especially if they concern
me. The Latino seductress he would probably be proud to boast
about.
    Eric frowned harder. “Ciara it’s not what you
think…”
    I shrugged and sat down at my desk, putting
my headphones on. “I don’t get paid to think Mr. Wolfe.” I pressed
the foot pedal to start the tape and started typing. I could feel
Eric still standing behind me, but focused on my work. A full
minute passed before he walked into his office and grabbed his
briefcase before walking out of my office to go to the conference
room for his next meeting. I stopped typing and sighed. Way to act
like the jealous girlfriend. Dammit. I walked to the copy machine
and started making my copies, ignoring the stares of the other
secretaries. I gathered up my copies and walked to the mail area.
One of the secretaries stood up and smiled at me. “Bad day?”
    I sighed. “Yes.”
    She shrugged. “Every attorney has flaws. You
just have to learn to ignore them or else they eat you up inside
until you can’t work for that attorney. It’s like a marriage in a
way. If you and your attorney aren’t on the same level you won’t
make good partners, but if you are then you make the perfect team
and that’s really how attorneys win cases. It’s also why
secretaries and attorneys end up marrying a lot.”
    I looked up at her. “What? I’ve never heard
of that.”
    She laughed. “Oh it happens quite often. Most
of the time they just keep it a secret so you just think the boss
shouldn’t be messing with his secretary ‘til you find out one day
she’s also his wife. Then you decide that they must have one hell
of a sex life since you know they get it on in his office. Man, how
hot would that be?”
    I stared at her in shock. “So, you’re saying
that a lot of the attorneys here that we think are just messing
with their secretaries are really married to them?”
    The secretary nodded her head. “Every one of
the attorneys here on the first floor, excepting Mr. Wolfe, is
married to their secretaries.”
    I finished closing the envelopes I had been
working on and set them in the outgoing basket. “Wow.”
    The secretary smiled. “I’m Rose by the
way.”
    I extended my hand to her. “Ciara.”
    She shook my hand and winked. “Now try and
work it out with Mr. Wolfe. He seems like a nice guy. And single is
always good when they look like him.”
    She giggled and sat back down at her desk and
started