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seconds later had dashed down the hall and around the corner
before bursting unannounced into Aaron’s office.

 
    “Did you see her?”

 
    Aaron looked at Nick,
threw up a finger to tell him to hold on and finished the call he was on.

 
    “Even though you are the
boss, I know we’ve talked about you barging in here like....well like you own
the place.  What is it now man?”

 
    “Yeah, sorry about.
 Anyway, did you see her?”

 
    “See who?”  Aaron
responded, slightly annoyed.

 
    “Donna?”

 
    “Donna?  Who is
Donna?”

 
    “C’mon man, you know
Donna.  Donna!”

 
    “No.  Why do you
think I would see her?”

 
    “Because she works here
now?”

 
    Aaron dropped his pen.
 Anyone who knew Nick could tell he was excited, and why wouldn’t he be.
 The only woman he had a real flame for in the past five years not only
moved back to town but now worked at the same office with him.  Works for him apparently.  

 
    “Whoa.  How did
this happen?”

 
    “You know I’d recently
been tinkering with the idea of expanding company benefits and decided I wanted
to have a counselor available a few days a week.  After the issue with Mr.
Morgan last year, I realized that there was so much more we needed to do for
everyone.”

 
    Nick still didn’t like
to think of that situation.  One of his employees, Tom Morgan, had a
medical emergency that happened and he almost lost his health because he was so
concerned about not being at work and losing his job.  Ever since then,
Nick took it upon himself and worked directly with HR to develop a package of
assistance and benefits that would make navigating the help available at the
company better.  

 
    “I understand that
fully, but what does that have to do with Donna working here?”

 
    “I guess all that
studying she was doing was to become a therapist.  HR brought me a
proposal a few weeks back that we submitted to a local office to provide onsite
support.  I guess she is one of the people that work there.  I just
found out about an hour ago, before my conference call.”

 
    “Interesting.  So
you’re going to be working with her all the time now?”

 
    “Not all the time.
 Our roles aren’t exactly going to require us to ever see each other.
 Unless I need therapy, our paths may never cross.”

 
    “I don’t even like the
way you said that.  ‘Unless I need therapy’.  Dude this is work.
 That is so not the route you want to take here.”

 
    “What?  It was her
idea.  She said that even company heads need to offload too...or something
akin to that.”

 
    “Didn’t take much
twisting of your arm to convince you of that it seems.  Just be careful.
 The reason you made so many changes around here is because you wanted to
protect your employees and give them a brighter future.  Don’t go
jeopardizing that with a little ‘love therapy’.”

 
    “Love therapy?
 Funny.  I’m just excited to be working with her, but I know the
line.”

 
    “Right. It just so
happens that I know you really well and somehow it seems like you are about to
completely ignore the line you just spoke of.”
    “Not at all my skeptical friend.  Not at all.”

Chapter 5

 
    Donna sat in her new
office the following day.  She had chosen to go in on Mondays and Tuesdays
because she wanted to have them back to back.  Sitting at her desk, no one
had yet to avail themselves of her services, but it had only been two days.
 She figured it would take time for people to feel comfortable with the
idea of speaking to someone on staff regarding their personal issues, so she
had taken to introducing herself to people via email and the like by sending a
newsletter out to the staff with stress reducing tips as well as contact
information and appointment options for her.  She was startled when she
heard the knock on her door since she didn’t have anyone on her schedule yet.
  

 
    She quickly got up