I got her fired. Okay, so Id had a bad day and took it out on a bystander in a pizza shop. But theres nothing innocent about Ally Morales. She proves that her first day of her new job in my office after being hired by my mother. So maybe her colorful, annoying, inexplicably alluring personality brightens up the magazines offices that have felt like a prison for the past year. Maybe I like that she argues with me in front of the editorial staff. And maybe my after-hours fantasies are haunted by those brown eyes and that sharp tongue. But that doesnt mean that Im going to be the next Russo man to take advantage of his position. I might be a second-generation asshole, but I am not my father. Shes working herself to death at half a dozen dead-end jobs for some secret reason she doesnt feel like sharing with me. And Im going to fix it all. Dont accuse me of caring. Shes nothing more than a puzzle to be solved. If I can get her to quit, I can finally peel away all those layers. Then I can go back to salvaging the family name and forget all about the dancing, beer-slinging brunette.
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