Free Secrets (Swept Saga) by Becca Lee Nyx

has led to my sentence behind the desk. When I’m not at school or debate I’m here in the law offices of Davis and Brown filing paperwork, calling clients and scheduling meetings. I’m a fucking secretary; doing work better suited for someone like Kelly. At least she has the body for it. I can’t imagine anyone not wanting to see someone like her sitting at a desk. Perhaps when I get my own firm I’ll make her my secretary. She will wear tight fitting outfits and I’ll take her on every desk in the building, ripping her clothes off and-
    “Ryan, are you going to get that?” Scott Davis asks me.
    “Yeah.” I answer and pick up the ringing phone. All I can think about is how much I hate this job, if you can even call it that. It’s not like they pay me. I’m more like a servant than an employee. Really, when I think about it there isn’t much difference between a servant and an employee, one just happens to get paid, but both are expected to work their lives away and jump whenever the boss barks an order. One of these days I’m going to be that boss barking out orders and making my employees jump. The thought makes me smile as I imagine what it will be like to be head of my own firm. If there’s one thing I love it’s being in control.
     
    Finally after work I made it back to my dorm. Crystal told me she misses me in the last text she sent me. I miss her, too. That’s one thing I hate about my new arrangement, I don’t get to see her as much as I would like to. I do get time off, but I don’t have near the time that I used to. There’s a knock at my door, I open it and see Kelly standing there in a short skirt, button up shirt, and stilettos. I look at her confused. I haven’t seen her for a little while. Her visits have been less frequent because she’s been so wrapped up in Nick. “What do you want?” I ask her.
    “What do you think?” She answers and starts to unbutton her shirt.
    “What about Nick?”
    She looks up at me, annoyed, “Do you know when to shut up and not ask questions?”
    “Sure, I do, but you’ve been with him all this time I figured you had moved on.”
    “I thought I had too, but I can’t get you out of my system.”
    “So, what is this?”
    “Since when do you question sex?”
    “You know what, I don’t know.”
    “Forget it” She says turning to leave.
    “What?”
    “I was never here, this never happened. It’s obvious we will never work.”
    I stand there even more confused. One minute we were going to have sex the next she talking about us and not working? Since when was there an us? “I don’t get it, us?”
    “You know what? Fuck you, Ryan.” She said before slamming the door.
    I don’t know what’s going on with her. She ignores me for weeks and then walks in like she owns the place. I have missed her, but I have Crystal now. Or at least I think I have Crystal now. I’m pretty sure she’s still seeing Gabriel and it hurts. I gave her terms. I told her I would leave if she didn’t choose me. Could I just walk away from Crystal like that? I know I couldn’t. I know I would find some excuse to stay in her life. As much as I want to be the one in control there is something about her that makes me lose sense of myself. How my father has juggled both my mother and Karen I will never know or understand. I walk back to my room and lie down in bed. I have a date to plan for Crystal, something that will knock her socks off.
     
    “Brrum, Brrum,” My phone vibrates on the night stand waking me up. I look at the time on my alarm clock, it’s 2:38am. Grabbing my phone I try to focus on the screen. I’m still bleary eyed and can’t quite make out the caller ID. I blink, and then rub my eyes and finally the screen comes into focus. It’s my mom.
    “What wrong?” I ask, answering the call.
    “Ryan, I-I just missed you nothing is wrong.”
    “It’s two forty in the morning.”
    “I know, I’m sorry, it’s just I couldn’t sleep. The house felt