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“Must be something pretty bad then.”
“An unforgivable transgression.”
“So you’re pretty awful?”
“I am defiled and despised, yes.”
“So...wanna...help me? I could use someone despicable.”
I stood, attempting not to crush another phone in my hand. I spoke with gritted teeth. “Tell me. Where you. Are.”
Another popped bubble. “I’m in the file room. Come find me.”
I knocked the wall of my cubicle over in my haste to leave behind the tasks that awaited me on my computer’s email. The file room was one flight of stairs up, but the Prince’s don’t take stairs. So I entered the elevator. What a grave mistake that was, for in the elevator was none other than Felicity.
“Hey there, Allie, honey!”
“Do you come with an off switch, perchance? Or is bludgeoning the only way to silence you?”
“Oh dear, you say the silliest things.”
I narrowed my eyes at her. “What hell demon sent you to work here with me, hm? Who could conceive of this?”
“Hampton’s Temp Agency?”
“They are the most impressive sadists ever to live.”
Felicity chuckled. “I think you’re sweating because you’ve got a little crush on the new auditor.”
I slammed my fist into the metallic wall of the elevator, but the dent did not even cause Felicity to blink.
“I take that as a yes!”
“Mind your foul tongue, old woman.”
She shrugged, quite pleased with herself. “You know...tomorrow is Valentine’s Day...”
“How long can one elevator take? How long must I suffer for my lack of belief? How long—”
“You should ask her to be your Valentine—”
“Listen and hear me, you feeble office worker. I will never entertain a day devoted to the mythos of love. No matter the temptress. No matter the price to be paid for my insolence.”
“Maybe some nice flower—”
The elevator door opened and I left the torturer behind me, headed for the file room. When I opened the door, Kat was sitting on top of a file cabinet, a laptop open and a lollipop between her lips and a bit of yarn inexplicably twirled between her fingers.
“Hey, darkness,” she said.
“Sweets.”
“Wanna see?”
“You?”
She glanced at her laptop and then back up at me. “I mean...I guess? If we’re quick.”
“Yes.” I took her laptop and flung it across the room.
