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were clouded by this man she hardly knew. She recalled his deep brown eyes and sighed as she rustled up a salad for herself. “I just don’t need this,” she said out loud to herself.”
    After lunch, she tried once again to slip into writing mode but no words were flowing through to her fingertips. She sat staring at her laptop until she gave up completely and shut it down. “Great, the last thing I need is a distraction,” she mumbled to herself as she stood up and left the room. She wondered why she'd never come across Joshua in the town before; he clearly likes to run along the lake too, she thought. Maybe he works away or something. The afternoon passed by uneventfully and slowly. She spent the rest of Sunday getting her work clothes ready and finishing a write-up for the paper before heading off to bed early.

Chapter Four
    Angelina stretched her arms before rolling over to check the time; Monday morning had come around far too quickly for her liking. “Oh no, it can’t be.” Jumping out of her warm bed and tripping over her feet, she darted to the bathroom. Angelina cursed to herself for over-sleeping. “How did I sleep through my alarm? It could wake a bear up,” she muttered to herself. It was 9:30 a.m. by the time she reached her office. Her boss checked his watch as she made her way hurriedly to her desk. Jayden shook his head in mock concern.
    “ Couldn’t you get up this morning Angelina?”
    “ Don’t start, Jayden; I’m not in the mood this morning.”
    “ Oh dear, someone’s in a grump today.”
    Jayden both admired and resented Angelina; he had been overlooked for promotion in favour of her some years before and this had never sat well with him. He had been attracted to her from the first day she'd walked into the office all those years ago. Unlike most of the women in the office, Angelina was very private; she never discussed her personal life or gossiped. She was different and he liked that about her. She fascinated him. He knew deep down she had been the best person for the job, however, this hit is pride hard and he hadn’t felt the same way about the company since.
    Angelina threw her jacket over the back of her chair, ignoring Jayden, and went to grab herself a coffee from the small sparse staff kitchen. Idiot, she thought. If he put as much effort into his job as he did in taunting her, he would have been promoted long ago. She could never understand why he was always on her case; one minute he was making her life as difficult as possible and the next she would catch him looking at her in a way that made her feel self-conscious. She could never figure him out.
    As she flicked through her emails, she smiled as she noticed an email pop up on her screen from Lucy, asking her to meet for lunch at around one o’clock at their usual coffee shop. Thank God for Lucy, thought Angelina, smiling.
    “I’m surprised you have anything to smile about; not only are you late this morning, you also missed the 8:30 a.m. meeting regarding our new client,” said Geoffrey her boss in a rather curt manner.
    “ I didn't know anything about a meeting this morning.” She checked her mobile phone and then hurriedly glanced through her emails. And there it was, an email from Geoffrey at five o’clock Friday evening, requesting all seniors to attend a meeting on Monday morning.
    “ I’m so sorry, Geoffrey. I didn’t receive your email before I logged off on Friday.”
    Geoffrey considered her for a brief moment. “I also mentioned it to your assistant Jayden before I left the office on Friday.” Geoffrey threw Jayden a curious lingering look before heading back into his office.
    Jayden, well, that figures, thought Angelina; he knew I would not have seen the email, and he also knew he could have sent me a message if he really wanted too. Angelina had had just about enough of Jayden; he was determined to see her fail. “Jayden, I want to have a private word with you please.”
    He stood up and followed