her. It felt surreal-only a few days ago she was dragging her dreams through the dirt of New York's cold sidewa

n her cleaner's uniform and halfway through a slice

I spill bleach on some million-dollar floor? What if I trip and fal

ond slice of toast. "Then you'll go

o realize I'm going to be working at the same place as that... tha

evel. Anyway, he's barely at headquarters unless there's a major eve

ffened. "The

Newbies only get there after provi

God. I don't need my heart jumping

ved upward like it had been sculpted by ambition itself. Arabella tilted her head

arned. "You'll develop inferiorit

s moved with robotic precision, and the air smelled of money and

u're already assigned to Floor 5. Arabella Quinn, welcome. You'll shadow for the day on Floor 3. Don't

but the woman was already halfway down

c?" Arabella muttered as she an

lison called back before vani

pushed her cart along, reading the golden nameplates on office doors Directors,

ly sounds were the occasional whoosh of elevator doors and the

loud voice thundered through a closed door. She f

stions my decisions again, he can take hi

paused

er issues,

visor appeared beside her like a ghost. "You might wan

he break room. She needed five minutes a

t oddly sterile space marble counters, minimal d

ers walked in, de

ssistant quit again. Third o

expect? Working that close to a man who's

water slowly, pret

useful or invisible," the woman added

process what she'd heard. Invisi

nding machine on Floor 3. Her hands ached from scrubbing and lifting, and she already had a c

he was s

d Allison waiting outside the build

inned. "Did you de

. But I did survive angry execs, c

l day at X

ogether, the city

ly. "What's the penthouse li

uxurious, sure, but cold. Like no one really live

oes he live there? Li

s mood or his enemies," A

d in her tracks

ding. Mostly. The guy's rich and powerful. That alone

over the city. She felt like something had started a

Or Xavier Black. Or this company that l

knew o

o longer

oth exciting a