Hundred and Four

VALERIA

I knew who was at the door before I called 'Come in'. With a sigh of amusement and exasperation, I sat back to watch a smiling Alexis walk into my office with a folder held under his arm.

"You came to see me... again."

If Alexis noticed my emphasis on the word 'again' he gave no indication that he had done so. After hiring him, I had given Alexis a position with the tech team working closely with Dimitri. For some reason he was always coming to see me even though his office was two floors down from mine. Even with the elevators, it would still be tiring to keep constantly keep moving from his office to mine. Alexis did not seem though which was weird. Very weird. Just today, he had come into my office about six times and it was not even noon yet.

"Hi, how's it going?" he asked for what felt like the umpteenth time that day.

"Fine. I guess." I waved him into a seat. "You have a question for me?"

I wanted him to get straight to the point. He had a tendency to want to stop an