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recognition, I didn’t want the attention, but I did want the man who
had saved me to get the fame he deserved. I wanted him to know how thankful I
was for him, how I couldn’t stop thinking about him since the night before.
    The truth was that
he had saved me in more ways than one. He had saved me last night physically
and all day today emotionally. Having him to concentrate on was taking my mind
off of everything else I had been through last night and the fact that my
mother was blowing up my phone every second picking me apart. I had thought she
would calm down after the hospital but so far she hadn’t let up.
    I jumped off a few
floors below and took the stairs the rest of the way up. I wasn’t sure why I
did this but it seemed less noticeable to emerge from a stairwell then the main
elevator. It paid off when I emerged into a small hallway seconds later. I
peered out the door at the main secretary and rolled my eyes. This was hardly
safe.
    I started down the
hallway, looking into various office doors but the man of the hour was nowhere
in sight. Probably held up in some fancy office somewhere, couldn’t be bothered
with slumming it down here with them common folk who do his job for him.
    The office was
packed but surprisingly no one stopped me. I said a thankful prayer that I had
gone home and changed into a dressier outfit before coming up here. I figured I
wouldn’t get past the lobby if I started going crazy in my sweats and t-shirt.
    I was just about
to give up and head to the other side of the building when an arm tugged on the
sleeve of my suit and pulled me a few steps backwards. I jumped forward and let
out a large scream, causing a bunch of people in the office to turn and look at
me.
    The blonde man
standing in front of me looked startled. He cleared his throat and straightened
his tie, almost like he was uncomfortable wearing it. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean
to startle you, Ms. Young.”
    Ms. Young?
    A girl who sat a
few desks away from us looked me up and down suspiciously. Ugh, why didn’t she
try being attacked in her sleep and then see how she felt the next day? I
thought I was allowed to be a little jumpy.
    The mysterious
blonde man cleared his throat loudly. “Ms. Young, we’ve been waiting for you.
Please, follow me this ways.” He held his hands out and gestured toward the
back of him.
    Shit, now what the
hell was I going to do? He clearly thought I was someone else. If I corrected
him I would have to explain what I was really doing here and then I would
probably get thrown out of here before I had a chance to find Braden.
    “I’m sorry,” I
whispered, trying to regain my composure. “I must have gotten turned around.” I
smoothed out my suit confidently, not because it’s something I would normally
do but because I think it’s something a businesswoman would do. I tried to
smile but it must have come out as more of a grimace because soon he took a
step forward and placed his hand on my shoulder.
    “Look,” he said,
sounding reassuring. “I always get nervous before a big presentation, too, but
this is nothing to be worried about. You know all about this story, you’ve been
prepping it for months.”
    A story?
Presentation? What presentation? Panic filled my body.
    Before I had a
chance to respond the mystery blonde in his suit was pushing me off down the
hallway toward a big black door at the end of the hall. It was pretty clear
even from a distance away that whatever was in that room was important.
    “I think I just
need to use the bathroom before we start,” I said in an act of desperation but
the man made no signs of letting up.
    “No time for that
now! Everyone’s already waiting!”
    He was much
stronger than me and glided my body toward the room like I was as light as a
feather. What was I supposed to do? I could start kicking and screaming but he
would wonder why the hell I was flipping out on him.
    Fuck, I was going
to have to go inside of the room.
    I told myself