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already knew what it was about. Max.

She was young blonde and pretty and stars entered the

woman‘s brown eyes whenever he strode in the room giving off

an aura of confidence and charisma like a comet tail, but he

never noticed her beyond a cordial hello. In truth she felt sorry

for her, because Max‘s undeniable appeal was a force to be

reckoned with. So she did her best to not let the other girl‘s looks

bother her. It was odd to receive looks from someone who was

several years older than her. Didn‘t she know she wasn‘t any

competition with her plain looks? Boys only seemed to date her

because she was associated with Max. Not only that, Max liked

blonde-blondes, and her hair was a strawberry blonde color, or

copper as he called it.

The meeting started and she crossed her legs and set her

day timer on her lap. Max immediately took charge of the

meeting and she noticed that his employees treated him with

great respect and hung on every word. When he spoke they

listened and when he paid attention to them they swelled with

pride. She knew respect like that couldn‘t be bought and she had

to admit that she loved seeing this side of him.

About a half an hour later Brittney came in with a cart of

snacks and drinks and she knew for sure now that the look she

just gave her wasn‘t pleasant. It just so happened that Max had

turned around and whispered something in Lily‘s ear and

afterwards Lily realized that it looked intimate even though it

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was only to take note of a certain date for a meeting with some

Japanese associates. Regardless, Brittney didn‘t know her and as

far as Lily was concerned, shouldn‘t be jumping to conclusions.

It was common Knowledge that he was dating Estee Lauder‘s

new top model and neither she nor Brittney had a hope in hell

attracting his attention. Not only did he have a girlfriend, he also

didn‘t date employees, ever. She had heard that from Nancy her

second day here when she was getting orientated.

After the meeting she went to the bathroom and the

object of her earlier thoughts walked in and paused when she saw

her. Even when Lily washed her hands the woman just watched

her. The look in her eyes wasn‘t the least bit flattering.

―I have been after that PA job for almost a year.‖ She said

suddenly guiding her eyes over Lily. ―Yet you waltz in and none

of us knew about you.‖

Lily just stared at her. It was obvious what she was

insinuating, and she wasn‘t going to comment on it. ―Has it

occurred to you that I‘m qualified for this job?‖ She said instead.

―Absolutely not.‖ She narrowed her gaze on Lily‘s legs

visible from her skirt, ―I can see where your qualifications are.‖

―What a horrible assumption!‖ Lily shot seeing what she

was looking at, ―If you know Max he doesn‘t date his employees.‖

―Max is it?‖ She glared.

Lily almost groaned realizing her mistake. She called him

Max and everyone else referred to him as Mr. King. No wonder

people like Brittney thought they were sleeping together. ―I work

very hard and I‘m between semesters of a business degree.‖ She

said trying to recover, ―I got hired as a student.‖

Brittney shrugged, ―sure you did.‖ She said vehemently,

not believing her.

It was no use trying to convince the woman of anything.

Her mind was already made up. Lily gritted her teeth, ―Excuse

me.‖ She said marching past the other woman and out of the

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bathroom. Did Max‘s employees all think like that? That she got

this job on her back? Would this upset her so much if she didn‘t

care about him as much as she did? Probably not. Truth of it

was, she wanted Max, she always had and as much as the woman

insinuated she couldn‘t find it in herself to lie and deny it.



Later that evening, Lily had just finished dressing while

thinking on Brittney‘s accusations. She was letting them bother

her when she knew she shouldn‘t. Obviously the woman wanted

the job to be close to Max and who could blame her? Lily knew

that she had it good getting that job and it was because she was

Luke‘s sister that gave it to her. Yet, she couldn‘t tell Brittney

that. Why? Maybe part of her wanted the woman to think there

was something going on more than she wanted her to know it

was because of whom she knew that got her the job. Hopefully

Nancy would straighten her out if Brittney said anything.

Regardless, she was going to try and enjoy tonight despite

the incident today and she certainly wasn‘t going to mention it to

Max or Luke. If she couldn‘t handle his employees herself, she

didn‘t deserve the position she had. She went selected a faux fur