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to replenish the candy stock for me, don’t know how you knew the brand but I appreciate the effort . You’re always welcome to steal the candy, replacement not necessary.
    Cora
     
     
    To: Cora O’Malley
    From: Daniel Santagata
    Date: January 14, 2008, 9:20 a.m.
    Subject: You’re welcome
    Cora,
    Only a cad steals a little girl’s candy and doesn’t leave anything in return.  I’m glad I got it right; although I will admit that, I may have had some help.
    Please let me know if your computer gives you any trouble with the new updates. Sorry I didn’t tell you in advance. I don’t like to invade people’s space without them knowing about it but there was a critical update and I would hate for you to have logged in this morning and had your computer crash on you.
    Daniel
     
    “Deep breaths , Cora. That was polite, not flirty, don’t think anything of it. It’s unlikely he’s even seen your message yet, and if he did it’s not like he’s going to flirt via work email.” After one more deep breath, she opened her spreadsheets and started to count the beans.

Chapter 6
    Noon rolled around and the lunch bell chimed, at least in Daniel’s head, he grabbed the guys and everyone went up to the eighth floor conference room to eat in peace and quiet and to shoot the shit about yesterday’s football game.
    “So what was up with Cora on Wednesday after the meeting,” Rajesh asks, obviously fishing.
    “What do you mean?  She got a couple of departments, including us extra operating funds, nothing up with that but job security for you knuckle heads,” Daniel was their supervisor, technically, but he wasn’t a dick about it he was just one of the guys.  A guy who had a real door and a bigger paycheck, but a guy nonetheless. 
    “No, I mean after the meeting, you two were the last to leave,” Raj waggled his eyebrows at Dan . “You trying to make time with our shy bean counter?  Or was she trying to buy your affections?”
    Daniel didn’t growl, though he wanted to, and Steve, Mike and Joe just sat there staring at Raj mentally placing odds on how long Raj had left to live.  Daniel was one of those old -fashioned guys, and he did not like it when anyone talked shit about the women at work, or any women for that matter, as the only boy with six sisters he’d had being gentlemanly beaten into him at a young age.
    “I’m going to let that one slide on account of you having low blood -sugar, or maybe a stroke for breakfast.  She was collecting the copies that were left behind and we were just talking about winter break so shut your pie hole, or I will make it so you don’t have a hole for pie.” He hoped he sounded calm and level headed when he spewed all that out because what Raj didn’t know, what no one but him knew, and even he didn’t know until ten minutes ago, was that the shy bean counter might actually be interested in making time with him. Before lunch, he opened his personal email and had a reply to his dating ad. He hadn’t even realized it was still up, he created it one night about six months ago when he was kinda drunk; feeling lonely and sitting on the couch in his boxers watching TV while his cat Lancelot played on the carpet with a crumpled up piece of paper.
    Cora, sent him a reply, what the fuck was he going to do about that?
    “I didn’t mean anything crude by it, but you have to have noticed that she’s all curvy in that hot way now that she’s lost all that weight, red hair, quite the rack, a man could rest his head on those for days,” Raj said with a mouth half full of sandwich.
    Seriously, did he have a death wish today?  Dan didn’t want to kill Raj, but he was pretty sure the other guys would help him hide the body if he did.
    “She was always good looking, being overweight doesn’t automatically make you ugly the same way being skinny doesn’t automatically make you attractive, take y our bony ass for example.” Daniel tried his best to sound nonchalant.  He had