THE STARS IN HER EYES

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to argue with me. If there was anything that my mom was good a

r name. Which was exactly why she had changed it back to the name she'd been born wit

to back down, but when it came to my own life, some

to hire them. I need to take matters into my own hands or you're never going to get

time away from

time you took a full week off work? No checking emails, no replying to calls, no not

I replied. "You know that I h

se, what's the point of keeping all that staff around? You brought them on because you knew you couldn't do it

"It's not that easy for me

she said, spreading her hands wide as though she was delivering some gr

d my back?" I asked her. "And do any of them know that

t I think I have a couple of good options lined up and r

th earlier-and as much as I hated to admit it, th

d hustle her ass to get me set up with a house and two kids with this woman

limpse over the reception area was all that I needed because there was no way in hell I was

et with them," she suggested. "Just one meeting. That's all. And if you d

id. "Apart from the bit

in and help take some of the load off," she said. "You know that, right?

houldn't have been drinking this early in the day, but it was the only way I was going to be able to get through lunc

taken my first sip. "I don't want people applying for a jo

now," she replied with a shrug.

ready gotten her teeth into was difficult, but hopefully, she woul

's it," s

her. For now at least. But the look in her eyes told me that she hadn't entir

utted heads, we were in for a bumpy ride. Because neither of us ever wanted to be the first to back down, and