Delivered by Cassidy Vale

Seven years ago, I overheard the boy I loved tell his friends I was a nobody.

Just his little sister’s best friend, a girl with a pathetic crush.

I tried to build my life without him, and I even disappeared eventually.

Then my grandmother got sick, and I went back to California.

One month. That’s how long it took before I reversed my Honda into a black sports car in a grocery store parking lot.

Then, when I walked into work on Friday morning, and the entire office was buzzing about our mysterious new owner who’d just acquired the company overnight.

They sent me to the executive floor, and the chair behind the desk spun around.

Jack Specter looked me dead in the eye and said,

“Pauline. Have a seat..”

He bought my company.

And now the man I’ve been running from just became my boss.