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“Then I’ll let her know and be ready to go at five. Or do you need to stay later?”

“Five works.”

He hung up on her after that.

Really? Talk about rude.

Guess she had a date.

She went back to work, checking her facts, then came across a file.

A double file.

One she’d opened many times, but the second one came in two months after she’d started the project.

One from Debra. An HR one.

She clicked to open it after noticing the dates. Jeez, how did she miss that? Was she using an older file the whole time?

But when she clicked, it was password protected.

She went back to the original file with the same name, only missing the (1) next to it. That one opened just fine.

She couldn’t very well call Debra back and ask if there was something different on this file.

That would almost be admitting she didn’t do her job fully.

And one HR file wasn’t going to make that big of a deal.

This was smaller though. Almost half.

She picked up her phone and called Braylon.

“Hi, Paris.”

“Do you have a minute to meet today?”

She heard Braylon clicking around. “How about in two hours?”

“I’ll be there.”

She’d put it from her mind until then. It was probably nothing, but she was going to cover her bases while she was at it.

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UNDERESTIMATE ME

“You’re right on time,” Paris said when she heard the bell go off.

Not that it mattered because Molly was still there.

And Fletcher had a keycard to get behind the security door that had been installed over the weekend.

He had to admit that Paris had already made it look nicer than he’d expected.

She’d worried over nothing.

He walked through the door she was holding open. “Coming to greet me? Want to know my reaction to your decorating skills?”