Eighty Eight

Asher’s POV

“Do you think you’re irreplaceable?” It was the first thing I asked my secretary the next morning when I got to work and she told me someone was waiting for me.

My voice was laced with all the snakiness in me I was feeling lately. Okay, maybe I was just angry about the person she had told me was waiting for me there. Maybe I wouldn’t be this angry if she told me it was literally any other person in the world.

But it had to be Gary!

She stared at me as if I had gone mad, but maybe I had. “I’m sorry, Mr. Campbell. I don’t think I’m irreplaceable, I just didn’t know you wouldn’t like to see him, that was all.” She said.

“How dare you be sarcastic with me?” I said, my voice so cold it might be able to freeze her if I put my mind to it. She recognized that voice though, and she backed off.

“I’m sorry, sir. I wasn’t trying to be sarcastic. I just really didn’t know. You’ve never had a problem with anyone waiting for you in your office until now.”

Well, that was true, but that