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already been filled. But I

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scream

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mile spread across

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the desk until he was standing

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ld see my reaction. This mo

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tween us, expensive but

words cam

on, Maya, you don'

my mouth before re

out, your time

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elf a nice

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pent my entire day by Mr Eric's

single morning with a call "the ca

y eyes e

h morning traffic while he barked

fee, he yells that it's either "too

my eyes burned and stayed until

nuscript" which stay up to do. Yet I'm still

ust stared at me with pure contempt, like

back every

was running on pure

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for us. I carried the final tablet into his of

the renderings slowly, deliberately looking for som

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e walked around the desk until he tower

lot of nerve

tures about soul and community

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ay. You are an assistant, nothing more. You exist t

nions. Rememb

ifted my chin and stared stra

you destroy neighborhood

iss

that you've forgotten what it feels lik

face. He stepped forward until our bodies were almost touching.

to my mouth for

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me violently, like my pres

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turning his

ke that again, I will fire you so fast and make sure your

, walked out and slammed the door s

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