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Chapter 17.1: Pushed Too Far

Cecilia

“I’m just calling Miss Thornhill,” Anna pleads.

The fearful warble in her voice almost makes me feel sorry for her.

But then I hear Emeric’s voice again and I remember I’m supposed to have already wrenched myself free from all this.

“You know that I told you—” my ex-boss starts shouting.

I’m so tired of that voice. That anger. And I don’t have to listen to it anymore.

I hang up.

I tell one of our paralegals that I need help screening my calls.

“Put clients through, but anyone else, tell them I’m not here and take a message. Especially anyone from AtCap.”

I suspect my paralegal had already heard the rumours about me. He knew that I had got a new mobile phone, that only he and our boss Roy knew the number.

The young man nods. “Of course. I’ll talk to the front desk.”

I don’t have any more meetings today and I’m not expecting any calls. So I tell the paralegal to close my office door behind him, and then I unplug my desk phone and power down my cell.

Anna has only herself
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