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