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with
Mark.
     

Chapter
Fourteen
A surprise
visit
     
    It was
the first day in my new role. Mia had gone. She’d gone quietly too
– no big send off. I was glad about that as I wouldn’t have gone
and half the office wouldn’t have either – probably why she didn’t
have one. Lots of people have come up to me recently and congratulated me on my new
job. I think they’re glad that the office will be a bitch-free zone
from now on. I was happy to find out that Danielle was going to be
my new PA. We’d gotten on so well when she came as a temp; Steve
liked her too and so now she was here permanently. I’d asked her to
hold all my calls while I attempted to get to grips with a poster
using the publishing package I’d struggled with. Despite this the
phone started to ring.
    ‘Danielle, I
thought I asked you to hold my calls,’ I said, hoping I didn’t
sound too bitchy.
    ‘ I know
that, Miss Gordon, it’s just there’s someone here asking to see
you.’
    ‘What, here in
the office?’
    ‘ Yeah,
it’s a girl; she said you know her, Monica Wyatt.’
    What could she
want? ‘Ok, send her in, thanks Danielle.’
    The door to my
office opened slowly and Monica entered. ‘Wow, what a great
workspace!’ she said before sitting down opposite my desk.
    ‘Hi, so what
can I do for you?’
    She
grinned and spun around on her chair. ‘I think that should be what
I can do for you!’
    I was pleased
to see she’d dressed appropriately for once. She looked nice in her
jeans, t-shirt and trainers. ‘Ok. What can you do for me?’
    ‘Our mutual
friend called me the other night. He told me that you are missing
my brother. Is that right or not?’
    She was making
me feel really uncomfortable. ‘Of course I miss him. We had a laugh
together.’
    ‘So that’s all
it was then, a laugh?’
    I knew
she was pushing for more information. If Mark didn’t make it as a
journalist she certainly would. ‘Well, it was a bit more than that.
I like your brother a lot.’
    She twirled
around in her chair again and then leant forward on my desk, her
dark eyes boring into mine. I felt like I was a defendant on trial.
‘So you would go as far as to say you love him then?’
    My butterflies
started dive-bombing again. ‘Well…’
    ‘It seems our
mutual friend thinks you do.’ She picked up my stress ball and
started to pummel it. ‘So, is it true?’
    ‘Maybe.’ I
stood up and walked towards the window. I never got tired of the
view. It relaxed me.
    ‘Mark misses
you too, you know. He hasn’t said anything but he’s been so moody
lately.’
    I didn’t look
at her. It was too painful – she reminded me of Mark. ‘Is that
right?’
    ‘Yeah. Anyway,
I’m fed up of him being so miz all the time. I think you two should
get back together and I’m here to help.’
    I turned to
face her. She looked so young sitting there; she could have been a
school girl. ‘And how are you going to do that?’
    She grinned and
put her finger to her lip. ‘It’s a secret. Let’s just say that if
you two aren’t back together by the end of this week I’m losing my
touch!’ She walked towards the door and then turned back to face
me. ‘You do want to get back with my brother, don’t you?’
    I nodded. ‘I
really do, yeah.’
    ‘Great. Leave
it with me, then.’ And with that she was gone. I felt a little
unsure, though. My first impressions of her hadn’t been good and I
hadn’t been impressed that evening at her parents’ house either.
Had I made the right decision, trusting her to sort out my
love-life? I decided to leave it in her hands; there was nothing
else I could do anyway, was there. I got back behind my desk and
resumed my poster designing, trying to take my mind off love. It
was more trouble than it was worth sometimes.
     

Chapter
Fifteen
Twists of
fate
     
    It’s so
funny how things turn out sometimes. The Universe works in
mysterious ways, so they say. Monica did try to sort my love- life
out. She came to see me at the end