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00:00:04good morning I'm Harley Quinn today I'm going to hand in my resignation letter and tell him
00:00:10straight up I'm done all right actually all of this is just my fantasy for five whole years I
00:00:18imagined countless times being able to leave like that decisive carefree without any ties
00:00:24but in reality it was never that dramatic I've rehearsed the scene of quitting countless times
00:00:28in my head but what happened next caught me completely off guard my heel snapped I fell
00:00:35straight into his arms and I heard him think if she leaves I'll buy whatever company she runs to
00:00:43his lips never moved
00:00:51Elias Kingsley CEO of Kingsley group 32 years old six foot three of charcoal suit and zero emotions
00:00:58Manhattan called him the iceberg for five years I'd been his executive assistant for five years
00:01:04he'd said mrs. Quinn like it was a file name now his hands were on my waist and a voice
00:01:08low and rough and
00:01:09unrestatably his was pouring straight into my head god she's warm five years and I've never been this
00:01:16close let go let go before she hears your heart
00:01:22are you injured flat bored the voice he used on broken pressures I'm fine I scrambled back clutching
00:01:31my envelope the voice stopped the second our bodies separated silence I must have hit my head that was
00:01:38the only explanation let me tell you who I was that morning I was the woman who answered his phone
00:01:45at
00:01:453 a.m. who knew his coffee order to the degree who missed my little sister Lily's birthday dinner because
00:01:52he needed a Tokyo deck by sunrise who wrote the pitch that won the biggest deal in company history then
00:01:58watched Derek Mills our VP of operations presented as his own Elias never said thank you not once not in
00:02:06five
00:02:07years then two things happened last month the tabloids announced that Elias Kingsley was
00:02:13practically engaged to Vanessa Holt the board chairman's daughter and last week passing HR I
00:02:19heard him say six words through a half open door start looking for Harper's replacement quietly
00:02:27I cried in the supply closet for 20 minutes then I fixed my mascara and said yes to Grant Sterling
00:02:33Sterling Dynamics our biggest rival chief of staff double my salary a real title and a real door
00:02:40five years is enough I set it on his desk my resignation sir two weeks notice Sterling Dynamics yes
00:02:48accepted that's all he read it in one pass no expression five years gone in four seconds I reached for
00:02:56my
00:02:56copy just as he held it out our fingers touched Sterling she's going to Grant Sterling
00:03:02that man can't spell synergy fine call legal call the bank I'll buy Sterling Dynamics by Friday
00:03:08every chair every staple every I jerked my hand away the voice cut off he glanced up gray eyes cold
00:03:17as the
00:03:17Hudson in January something wrong mrs. Quinn it wasn't my head it was him when I touched Elias Kingsley
00:03:25I could hear him think and Elias Kingsley was planning a hostile takeover because of me so I did something
00:03:30reckless I leaned down and straightened his tie for him my knuckle brushed his throat don't move don't
00:03:36breathe she's leaving you and she's still fixing your tie neckline is crooked it wasn't it was perfect
00:03:47I check it three times every morning before she walks in every single morning and her mouth
00:03:55god help me that mouth five years of watching it say yes sir I'd give the whole company to hear
00:04:01it
00:04:01say my name my knees went weak who was this man the door swung open without a knock
00:04:11Vanessa Holt swept in blonde and glossy and dripping in Chanel what the hell what are you two doing
00:04:18no we're just I hurriedly walked away from Elias what are you here for darling I was just passing the
00:04:26building so I thought I'd pop up to see you she draped herself over his shoulder
00:04:30kiss the air beside his cheek oh what's this Vanessa picked up the resignation letter from the floor
00:04:39oh you're finally leaving she smiled at me like I was a coffee stain perfect timing sweetie
00:04:45before you go you can plan one last event our engagement party my heart hit the carpet
00:04:58I looked at Elias I waited for anything a denial a flinch his face gave me nothing congratulations
00:05:06thank you sweetie that's so sweet of you then I walked out before my voice broke I didn't sleep
00:05:13that night I lay in my tiny Brooklyn apartment replaying one line every chair every stapler
00:05:19and one question in five years I bumped into Elias a hundred times handed him a thousand files I'd never
00:05:26heard a single thought it started the day I quit 14 days notice maybe this was the universe's
00:05:35severance package and maybe it would expire the minute I walked out his door for good
00:05:44at 8 15 the next morning Vanessa arrived at my desk with an entourage and a to-do list
00:05:53Harper oat latte extra hot and the guest list for the party 200 names by noon she snapped her fingers
00:06:00she actually snapped I'm mr. Kingsley's assistant miss Hort not yours the whole floor went quiet 20
00:06:07heads pretended not to listen you'll regret that sweetie vanilla's smile sharpened she picked the
00:06:14latte her intern was holding stepped closer and tipped it
00:06:27hot coffee poured down the front of my white bloast
00:06:34someone laughed Derek Mills of course already holding up his phone smile Quinn
00:06:43oops Vanessa tilted her head
00:06:46know your place secretary it's behind the coffee cart I stood there dripping arms crossed
00:06:57over my chest while everyone I'd worked beside for five years watched then the elevator dinged Elias
00:07:08stepped out he took it in the coffee the blouse Derek's phone Vanessa's smile his face
00:07:15didn't change he walked straight to me shrugged off his suit jacket and wrapped it around my shoulders
00:07:23his knuckles grazed my neck she's burned her skin is red she's shaking don't look at the blouse
00:07:31nobody looks at the blouse I will fire every man on this floor who looked at the blouse
00:07:37I bit my lip so I wouldn't cry Derek delete that video then delete the cloud backup then bring me
00:07:44the phone so I can watch Derek went pale and started tapping Elias faced Vanessa mrs. Holt there is
00:07:51no engagement party on this company's calendar his voice was calm polite and lethal darling don't be shy
00:08:00because there is no engagement there never was he said it loud enough for the entire floor or the story
00:08:13came from your publicist my lawyers have the invoice
00:08:2020 jaws dropped red blammas crawled up Vanessa's neck my father sits on your board Elias and your father
00:08:29can buy Miss Quinn a new blouse silk size small
00:08:37he turned Miss Quinn my office he knew my size I decided not to think about that
00:08:46inside he handed me burn gel from the first aid kit he knew exactly which drawer it was in
00:08:52I'd never seen him open that drawer thank you don't he stared out the window I should have been
00:09:03faster I had to know more I told myself it was research I stepped close and laid my hand on
00:09:13his arm
00:09:17she's wearing my jacket smells like me on her I want it to be the only thing she's wearing
00:09:25stop remember the rule Kingsley not while she works for you never while she works for you
00:09:33a rule what rule thunder cracked over Manhattan rain hammered the glass storm's getting worse
00:09:40I'll walk you to the car the elevator was empty the door slid shut we stood a careful foot apart
00:09:46watching the numbers fall 40 39 38 then the lights died the elevator lurched dropped half a floor and
00:09:53slammed to a stop I screamed and fell forward straight into his chest his arms locked around me in the
00:10:01pitch black his heart was pounding under my cheek fast and wild trapped in the dark with her
00:10:20a red emergency light fleckered on don't panic
00:10:27her hand is on my chest her hand is on my chest I should have moved I didn't
00:10:41for the first time in five years the iceberg couldn't hide from me
00:10:51we slid to the floor 30 minutes maintenance said 30 minutes I was still shaking so he put his hand
00:10:57over mine just a gentleman being practical his thoughts were not practical her skirt grown up
00:11:05look at the ceiling the ceiling is fascinating
00:11:10her lips are right there if this elevator stays stuck 10 more minutes I'm going to find out if
00:11:15she tastes like the cinnamon she puts in her coffee my whole body went hot
00:11:21can I ask you something
00:11:25five years why did you never say thank you silence out loud inside a flood
00:11:32because if I start I'll never stop thank you for remembering my mother's birthday when I forgot
00:11:37thank you for the sticky notes I keep every single one second drawer in a box
00:11:43mr. Kingsley is in a meeting he'll get back to you shortly thank you for telling the Tokyo board I
00:11:47was in a meeting when I was at my father's grave thank you for making this cold building feel like
00:11:52somewhere I want to come back to my eyes burnt
00:11:58your performance meets expectations mrs. Quinn a laugh broke out of me wet and shaky then why replace me I
00:12:09heard you start looking for Harper's replacement his hand went still on mine
00:12:19she heard that she thinks oh god is that why she's leaving tell her tell her the truth
00:12:31the light snapped on the elevator jolted and started moving he let go of me like I was on fire
00:12:47the doors opened on the lobby
00:12:53the iceberg was back
00:12:56your car is outside
00:13:01good night miss Quinn
00:13:05I came in at 7 a.m. the next morning to return his jacket before anyone else arrived I folded
00:13:11it
00:13:12over his chair and because I've kept his desk for five years I opened the second drawer a box of
00:13:19sticky notes hundreds of them all mine eat lunch call your mother tie is crooked under the box sat
00:13:27something small square black velvet a ring box a card was tucked under the ribbon in his sharp handwriting
00:13:39my hands shook I opened it
00:13:44a diamond caught the sunrise and set the whole office on fire
00:13:50put that down mrs. Quinn Elias stood in the doorway
00:13:53I couldn't breathe he crossed the room in four long strays took the box from my hand and closed my
00:14:00fingers
00:14:00around it inside his my back hit the edge of the desk
00:14:08he was so close I could see a tiny scar on his jaw I'd never noticed
00:14:13she found it three years I've hidden it three years
00:14:18the sky is gray say something you coward tell her you've loved her since her first day when she
00:14:25corrected your spelling in front of the entire board tell her the replacement was for her old job
00:14:31because she was supposed to be promoted tell her you'd buy 10 companies and burn them all down if
00:14:37it meant she stayed
00:14:40Harper
00:14:45not mrs. Quinn Harper the first time in five years
00:14:50the door flew open Vanessa her father chairman Richard Holt two security guards and Derek smirking behind them
00:15:03Harper Quinn
00:15:05last night at 2 14 a.m. the confidential project awara files were emailed from your account to sterling dynamics
00:15:12your new employer what i didn't
00:15:19you are terminated for corporate espionage effective immediately
00:15:26a guard grabbed my arm
00:15:29the ring box slipped from our hands and hit the carpet
00:15:33eliah's hand left mine his hand left mine and the voice cut off
00:15:38i looked at him i begged him with my eyes say something anything the man who'd kept every sticky
00:15:46tit i ever wrote looked at me with nothing on his face at all he held out his hand
00:15:52your badge mrs. Quinn
00:16:00i pressed my badge into his palm
00:16:04skin to skin she didn't do it
00:16:09i know she didn't
00:16:11Derek was the one logged in at 2 14. let them think they've win
00:16:15snakes only raise their heads when they think they've won
00:16:18forgive me harper forgive me for what my face is about to do
00:16:22i nearly collapsed with relief
00:16:25mrs. Quinn is suspended pending investigation escort her out
00:16:31elias is that a ring it's a paper waiter
00:16:35then the guards walked me out not out a side door
00:16:39right through the open floor past everyone i'd covered for baked cakes for stayed late for
00:16:46whispers followed me like wasps
00:16:49spy knew she was too perfect
00:16:53sleeping her way to sterling i heard
00:16:57derek fell into step beside me and leaned close
00:17:00you should have stayed in your lane sweetheart nobody believes the secretary
00:17:06i held my cardboard box against my chest and kept my chin up
00:17:09it took everything i had
00:17:12the lobby doors opened onto pouring rain
00:17:15the guards didn't offer an umbrella
00:17:18i stood on park avenue with five years of my life in a soaked box
00:17:22a plant a mug that said world's okayest assistant
00:17:27a photo of lily and me and i finally let myself cry
00:17:33my phone buzzed
00:17:34parper your name is on a business blog
00:17:36they're calling you a corporate spy call me now
00:17:39then another buzz an unknown number
00:17:41heard what happened terrible
00:17:43kingsley never deserved you
00:17:44my offer still come see me
00:17:49i stared at that message for a long time
00:17:52despite all the rumors that i was a spy
00:17:55he still offered me a job
00:17:57why at home i peeled off my wet clothes
00:18:01threw on my oldest sweat hurt
00:18:03and sat on the kitchen floor eating cereal from the box
00:18:06very glamorous
00:18:09very chief of staff i kept thinking about his voice in my head
00:18:13forgive me for what my face is about to do
00:18:16he believed me
00:18:18but believing me wasn't the same as saving me
00:18:22my name was on every blog in the city
00:18:25no company in manhattan would hire a spy
00:18:28sterling was the only door left
00:18:30and every instinct said it led somewhere dark
00:18:33at 11 47 pm someone knocked
00:18:37i froze nobody knocked on my door at midnight
00:18:41my neighbors barely knocked at noon
00:18:44i looked through the peephole
00:18:50elias kingsley stood in my hallway soaked to the bone
00:18:54no umbrella no driver
00:18:56his expensive coat was dripping on my landlord's ugly carpet
00:19:00i opened the door in my sweatshirt holding a cereal box
00:19:05something almost like a smile touched the corner of his mouth
00:19:09mrs quinn
00:19:10i need my assistant back
00:19:12you suspended me eight hours ago
00:19:15publicly
00:19:16he held out one of the coffees
00:19:18oat milk extra shot cinnamon on top
00:19:21my order i'd never once told him my order
00:19:24privately i need your help to catch whoever framed you
00:19:27i can't do it without you
00:19:28rain dripped from his hair onto his lashes
00:19:32he was shivering
00:19:33and when i reached out to take the coffee
00:19:36our fingers touched
00:19:38please let me in please
00:19:41i've never needed anyone in my life
00:19:43and i need her
00:19:48the ceo of kingsley group sat at my wobbly kitchen table
00:19:51wrapped in my pink towel drinking from a mug that said world's okayest assistant
00:19:55i would never recover from this image
00:19:59he opened his laptop
00:20:01the email came from your account at 2 14 a.m
00:20:05your badge wasn't in the building
00:20:08but derrick's was
00:20:10he used your password
00:20:12how does he know my password
00:20:13he gave me a look
00:20:16it's your sister's name and her birthday mrs quinn
00:20:20fair
00:20:21so why suspend me
00:20:22why not just fire derrick
00:20:24because derrick isn't smart enough to plan this
00:20:28someone is paying him
00:20:30if i strike now
00:20:32the real snake disappears
00:20:34he paused
00:20:35i'm sorry for today
00:20:37for the walk through the floor
00:20:40i watched every second of it on the security feed
00:20:43his jaw tightened
00:20:45for the first time i saw it
00:20:48the iceberg wasn't cold
00:20:51he was holding something back so hard it hurt
00:20:55i took a breath
00:20:57one more question
00:20:59why were you replacing me
00:21:01i want to hear him say it himself
00:21:07he didn't answer
00:21:09he opened a folder on his laptop and turned the screen toward me
00:21:15a letter dated eight months ago
00:21:18promotion recommendation
00:21:20harper quinn chief of staff
00:21:22i read it with my hand over my mouth
00:21:25harper quinn is the reason this company works
00:21:29she has done the job of three executives for the salary of one assistant
00:21:33project aurora was her idea her research and her pitch
00:21:38if this board has any sense it will give her the title she earned years ago
00:21:43the board rejected it
00:21:46he said quietly
00:21:48twice
00:21:51richard holt voted no
00:21:54derek was lobbying against it too
00:21:57the replacement was for your old desk so you could finally leave it
00:22:04i was going to try a third time this month
00:22:07the words blurred
00:22:09five years of feeling invisible
00:22:12five years thinking nobody saw the late nights
00:22:16the deals i saved
00:22:18the credit stolen right under my nose
00:22:21someone had seen
00:22:25the whole time
00:22:26why didn't you just tell me
00:22:29my voice cracked
00:22:30one sentence elias that's all it would have taken
00:22:33he looked at his hands
00:22:36rain drummed on my window
00:22:39i reached across the table and took one of them
00:22:43because of my father
00:22:45the thought came slow and heavy
00:22:47charles kingsley
00:22:49he fell for his secretary maria
00:22:52the kindest woman i ever knew
00:22:54she taught me chess on her lunch breaks
00:22:58when he got bored
00:22:59he fired he fired her and made sure no one in new york would hire her again
00:23:05i was 15
00:23:09i watched her pack her desk into a box in the rain
00:23:13i swore i would never be that man
00:23:19never the man with power over the woman he loves
00:23:23so i said nothing
00:23:25not while she works for me
00:23:28never while she works for me
00:23:30the box in the rain
00:23:32like me today
00:23:34tears slid down my cheeks
00:23:37i didn't let go of his hand
00:23:40harper
00:23:41why are you crying
00:23:43the cereal i lied
00:23:45it's stale
00:23:46she's crying
00:23:48she's holding my hand and crying
00:23:51what did i do
00:23:54buy her new cereal
00:23:56buy her the cereal company
00:23:58i laughed through my tears
00:24:01my phone lit up on the table
00:24:04grant sterling
00:24:06elias saw the name
00:24:08his jaw locked so hard i could hear his teeth
00:24:12i put it on speaker
00:24:16harper
00:24:18grant's voice was warm honey
00:24:21i'm so sorry about today
00:24:23kingsley threw you to the wolves
00:24:25come work for me
00:24:26tomorrow
00:24:28my office
00:24:31oh and harper
00:24:34bring whatever you remember about elias's plans for next friday's shareholder meeting
00:24:39consider it
00:24:40consider it a welcome gift
00:24:42the line went dead
00:24:44elias and i stared at each other
00:24:48he wants me to spy on you
00:24:49i said slowly
00:24:52for real this time
00:24:53absolutely not
00:24:55he's the snake elias
00:24:57and he just invited me into his nest
00:25:01no
00:25:03i squeezed his hand
00:25:05she's going to do it
00:25:06i can see it in her eyes
00:25:08god help me she's magnificent
00:25:13i'm going
00:25:15and you're going to let me
00:25:19sterling dynamics
00:25:20looked like a spaceship built by someone with a lot to prove
00:25:25i walked into sterling dynamics phone recording in my blazer my heart in my throat
00:25:31grant sterling met me personally tall tan vinners bright enough to guide ships
00:25:37he kissed my cheek he smelled like money
00:25:40harper quinn
00:25:43finally
00:25:44he sat me on a white leather sofa
00:25:47much too close
00:25:48let's be honest with each other
00:25:50kingsley used you
00:25:52five years and not even a title
00:25:55i'll give you everything he never did
00:25:59his hand landed on my knee
00:26:01i smiled
00:26:02i didn't move my knee
00:26:04i thought about lily
00:26:06my name on those blogs
00:26:08maria packing her desk in the rain
00:26:10and i let him talk
00:26:12here's my offer
00:26:14next friday at kingsley's shareholder meeting
00:26:16you get on stage and say elias ordered the aurora leak himself
00:26:21in return
00:26:22chief of staff
00:26:23a signing bonus
00:26:24and your name cleared in every paper in town
00:26:27and if i say no
00:26:32then you're the spy secretary forever
00:26:35his smile didn't reach his eyes
00:26:38no one in this city will hire you to fetch coffee
00:26:41he was careful
00:26:42every sentence polished nothing i could use
00:26:46five years in negotiations taught me one thing about men like grant
00:26:50they never slip when you push
00:26:53they slip when you bruise their ego
00:26:56so i laughed softly like i felt sorry for him
00:27:01what's funny
00:27:01you
00:27:03thinking you can beat elias with a leaked deck
00:27:06i shrugged
00:27:07aurora is useless without the pricing model
00:27:10and only two people have ever seen it
00:27:13me
00:27:14and elias
00:27:16so whoever sold you those files sold you half a map
00:27:20without elias and me you've only got half the picture
00:27:23his jaw flexed
00:27:28you think i'm an amateur
00:27:30my guy at kingsley pulled everything off your account at 2 14 in the morning
00:27:36the deck
00:27:37the model
00:27:38all of it
00:27:40i paid him more for one night than you made in a year
00:27:45the words hung in the air
00:27:47my guy
00:27:49your account
00:27:512 14
00:27:53then he caught himself
00:27:56his eyes narrowed
00:27:59that stays in this room
00:28:00of course
00:28:02i leaned back
00:28:05calm while my heart mammered against the phone in my pocket
00:28:11i just needed to know i was joining the winning side
00:28:14i stood and smiled
00:28:18i'll think about it
00:28:21outside a black car idled at the curb
00:28:25i slid into the back seat
00:28:28elias didn't look at me
00:28:30his hands were clenched on his knees
00:28:33i got him
00:28:35i said
00:28:36not everything
00:28:38but he admitted the leak came from my account at 2 14
00:28:43from his guy inside kingsley
00:28:45in his own voice
00:28:46i reached over and put my hand on his wrist
00:28:50he touched her knee
00:28:53i watched through the window with binoculars like a lunatic
00:28:5740 seconds
00:28:59he touched her knee for 40 seconds
00:29:02i will buy that sofa and burn it in central park
00:29:07i want to pull her into my lap right now
00:29:14kiss every place he touched until she forgets his name
00:29:18until she forgets every name but mine
00:29:20i forgot how to breathe
00:29:24elias are you okay
00:29:26perfectly fine he said
00:29:30i am not fine i have never been less fine
00:29:35she's this brave and i've never been this scared
00:29:39i didn't let go of his wrist the whole ride home
00:29:43when the car stopped outside my building he walked me up
00:29:48at my door he paused
00:29:50you did well today harper
00:29:53four words out loud my heart flipped
00:29:57neither of us saw the photographer across the street
00:30:03at 6 a.m lily called screaming harper open any website
00:30:08i grabbed my phone
00:30:11iceberg ceo's midnight visits to fired spy necretary
00:30:15photos elias at my door last night night
00:30:19elias soaked on my dear staff the night before
00:30:21elias and me in the car my hand on his wrist
00:30:25under it a second headline kingsley board calls emergency meeting
00:30:28ceo faces removal
00:30:31my phone buzzed with a text from vanessa hope he was worth it sweetie
00:30:37you just cost him everything
00:30:41the emergency board meeting was at two
00:30:46elias told me to stay home
00:30:49i didn't because one thing in that article made my blood while
00:30:55derrick had given a quote harper was a sweet girl but aurora was always my baby
00:31:02she just typed it up i'd spent 11 weeks on aurora
00:31:06weekends holidays i'd skipped my own birthday
00:31:12how dare he say that
00:31:17at noon i walked into the kingsley lobby
00:31:21the guards blocked me instantly
00:31:25miss quinn is my guest said a voice behind them
00:31:29elias coming out of the elevator
00:31:33he didn't ask why i was there he just held the door
00:31:39the executive floor fell silent when i stepped out
00:31:43then derrick saw me and grinned like christmas had come early
00:31:48well well the spy is back
00:31:53here for your plant he grabbed my old desk name played and dropped it into the trash can
00:31:59oops know your place quinn
00:32:04some people laughed the same people who used to ask me to cover for them
00:32:08i walked past him to the big screen plugged in my old laptop and opened the original aurora deck
00:32:15the one derrick presented to the board
00:32:19the one with his name on the cover
00:32:22what are you doing that's confidential
00:32:26you're right it is
00:32:29so only people on this floor will see it
00:32:32i turned to the room
00:32:35derrick says aurora was his baby
00:32:38so let's play a game
00:32:41everybody watched the white space at the bottom of each slide
00:32:44i pressed select all
00:32:47then i changed the font color from white to black
00:32:51hidden text appeared at the bottom of every slide in tiny perfect font
00:32:56created by harper quinn
00:32:59every word
00:33:00every chart
00:33:02every late night
00:33:04slide 2
00:33:06researched by harper quinn while derrick was at golf
00:33:10slide 3
00:33:12if you're reading this derrick
00:33:14synergy has two whys
00:33:17you spelled it wrong on slide 7
00:33:19the whole floor lost it
00:33:22people gasped
00:33:25someone laughed so hard
00:33:27she had to sit down
00:33:29phones came out
00:33:31derrick's face went pink then red
00:33:34then eggplant
00:33:38this is a lie
00:33:40she forged this
00:33:42and before you say i added it last night
00:33:45i said sweetly
00:33:48look at this
00:33:52i opened the version history
00:33:55every draft
00:33:56back to the very first one last spring
00:33:59was logged under one name
00:34:02h quinn
00:34:03the version you presented to the board had my words in it the whole time
00:34:08you never noticed
00:34:11because you never read it
00:34:17silence
00:34:19then elias spoke from the back of the room
00:34:23derrick
00:34:24did you present miss quinnon's work to my board as your own
00:34:29sir i can explain
00:34:31you'll explain to legal
00:34:33and to the police
00:34:35about a certain email sent at 2 14 a.m
00:34:38from someone else's account
00:34:40derrick's face drained completely white
00:34:43he looked at the exit
00:34:45at elias
00:34:47at me
00:34:48then he grabbed his jacket
00:34:49and ran
00:34:53the office erupted
00:34:55priya from accounting started clapping
00:34:58then the interns
00:35:01then the whole floor
00:35:02i stood in front of that screen shaking
00:35:05while people who'd whispered spy yesterday
00:35:07applauded
00:35:08elias walked up beside me
00:35:11he didn't touch me
00:35:12there were too many eyes
00:35:15but his voice was low
00:35:17the white text
00:35:19when did you do that
00:35:20three years ago
00:35:22after the first time he stole my work
00:35:24i started signing everything i made
00:35:26invisibly
00:35:29i shrugged
00:35:31every good assistant keeps receipts
00:35:33for one second
00:35:34i didn't need to read his mind
00:35:37i could see it on his face
00:35:39pride
00:35:40pure burning pride
00:35:42then his phone rang
00:35:45he answered
00:35:47listened and his expression turned to stone
00:35:50the board moved the meeting up
00:35:52he said
00:35:52now
00:35:54and richard holt has already written the motion
00:35:58what motion he looked at me
00:36:01fire harper quinn permanently and publicly
00:36:03he said
00:36:04or remove me as ceo
00:36:06my choice
00:36:10i sat on a bench outside the boardroom for 43 minutes
00:36:16the glass walls were frost
00:36:19i could only see shadows
00:36:2112 board members
00:36:24richard holt at the head of the table
00:36:26vanessa who wasn't even on the board
00:36:28standing behind her father like a smug little ghost
00:36:32and elias alone at the other end
00:36:34then the door opened a crack
00:36:36and richard holt's voice boomed through it
00:36:40it's simple elias
00:36:42one sentence
00:36:45say you never had feelings for that girl
00:36:47sign her termination and all of this goes away
00:36:50i held my breath
00:36:52i have never touched miss quinn
00:36:55elia said evenly
00:36:57it was true
00:36:58it hurt anyway
00:37:00good
00:37:01then sign
00:37:02a pen slid across the table
00:37:05silence
00:37:06then paper tore in half
00:37:11i have never touched her
00:37:13because i respect her too much
00:37:15not because i don't love her
00:37:18the room went dead quiet
00:37:21so did my heart
00:37:23harper quinn has done more for this company than anyone at this table
00:37:26she was framed by a man some of you protected
00:37:30for a deal she built herself
00:37:33if you want her gone you'll have to remove me first
00:37:37so remove me
00:37:40vanessa gasped
00:37:43elias
00:37:44you can't be serious
00:37:45i have never been more serious in my life
00:37:50chairs scraped
00:37:51voices overlapped
00:37:53finally holt cut through ice cold
00:37:57fine
00:37:58the shareholders vote next friday
00:38:00with my family's shares you'll lose
00:38:03enjoy your last week as cdo
00:38:05the door swung open
00:38:06board members hurried out avoiding my eyes
00:38:09vanessa stopped in front of me
00:38:11mascara perfect smile cracked
00:38:16you think you won
00:38:18he just threw away a billion dollar company for a secretary
00:38:21when he loses everything
00:38:23he'll hate you for it
00:38:28she clicked away on her heels
00:38:31i sat there frozen
00:38:33a small ugly voice inside me whispered
00:38:36that she might be right
00:38:39my father left when i was nine
00:38:41every boss i'd ever had took my work and forgot my name
00:38:46people don't choose me
00:38:48not when it cost them something and elias had just chosen me in front of everyone
00:38:54at the price of everything elias came out last
00:38:59he looked exhausted
00:39:01he looked at me on that bench and he didn't say anything
00:39:05he just tilted his head toward the stairhell
00:39:07the stairwell door closed behind us
00:39:10concrete walls emergency lights just the two of us
00:39:14you heard
00:39:15he said
00:39:17the door was open
00:39:18he leaned against the railer and closed his eyes
00:39:22i'm sorry
00:39:24that wasn't how i wanted you to find out
00:39:30i stepped close and took his hand
00:39:33i needed to know what he wasn't saying
00:39:36his thoughts came through fainter than on monday
00:39:38like a radio drifting out of range
00:39:43i love her
00:39:44i said it to 12 people who hate me
00:39:47and never once to her
00:39:50coward
00:39:50one week
00:39:52one week to save the company and her name
00:39:54there's one way
00:39:55it's insane
00:39:57buy sterling
00:39:58tonight
00:39:59use my own shares as collateral
00:40:00if it fails
00:40:02i lose everything
00:40:04everything
00:40:05it's worth it
00:40:07she's worth it
00:40:12elias
00:40:14i said quietly
00:40:15you can't use your own shares as collateral
00:40:17if the deal fails you'll be bankrupt
00:40:20he opened his eyes
00:40:22you're really buying sterling dynamics
00:40:24every chair
00:40:25every stampler
00:40:26he went completely still
00:40:27i watched the most brilliant mind in manhattan catch up
00:40:32his eyes dropped to our hands
00:40:34then back to my face
00:40:38harper
00:40:38he said slowly
00:40:40i never told anyone about the collateral
00:40:43not my lawyers
00:40:44not my bank
00:40:47i made that decision 10 seconds ago
00:40:50i opened my mouth
00:40:52nothing came out
00:40:54he didn't let go of my hand
00:40:56he held on tighter
00:40:58eyes narrowing like he'd found a loophole
00:41:01if you can hear this
00:41:03tell me the name of the stuffed rabbit i slept with until i was nine
00:41:07mr buttons
00:41:09the color dread from the iceberg's face
00:41:14for a full 10 seconds elias kingsley did not breathe
00:41:18then the color rushed back into the face wall street called the iceberg
00:41:21bright red from collar to hairline
00:41:25since when
00:41:26since i fell into you
00:41:28with my resignation letter
00:41:31i felt panic flood through his palm
00:41:34the blouse
00:41:35she heard about the blouse
00:41:36the elevator
00:41:38the cinnamon
00:41:39the binoculars
00:41:41i heard the binoculars too
00:41:43i confirmed
00:41:46he made a sound i didn't know a human could make and tried to pull away
00:41:51i held on
00:41:52and the sticky notes
00:41:54and the ring
00:41:55and maria
00:41:57and that you love me
00:41:59you said it in there
00:42:00out loud
00:42:01his eyes opened
00:42:02gray and for once no ice at all
00:42:06she knows everything
00:42:07and she's still holding my hand
00:42:10you should hate me
00:42:12he said quietly
00:42:14five years i let them treat you like furniture
00:42:17i watched you come out of that supply closet
00:42:20with red eyes
00:42:21and i did nothing
00:42:26because of a rule i made when i was 15
00:42:31you didn't just do nothing
00:42:33you wrote a promotion letter they rejected twice
00:42:37you kept every note i ever wrote
00:42:40you walked into the rain for me
00:42:45i stepped closer
00:42:49you're not your father elias
00:42:51you never were
00:42:53he looked at me like i'd handed him something he'd given up hoping for
00:42:57there's a catch
00:42:59i said
00:43:01it started the day i resigned
00:43:04and every day your voice gets quieter
00:43:07i think it ends when my notice does
00:43:10next friday
00:43:12midnight
00:43:13the day i stopped being your employee
00:43:15he went very still
00:43:19the day she stops being my employee
00:43:22he repeated softly
00:43:23the words on the card under the ring
00:43:25and your plan
00:43:27you're using your shares as collateral
00:43:30if friday fails you lose everything
00:43:34then i lose a company
00:43:36he shrugged
00:43:38i've been losing you for five years
00:43:41that was worse
00:43:44his free hand touched my cheek
00:43:47it was shaking
00:43:49then i have one week to say everything
00:43:52starting with this
00:43:53he leaned in
00:43:55his breath touched my lips
00:43:59i put one finger on his mouth
00:44:01not while i work for you
00:44:05your rule
00:44:07you're suspended
00:44:09still counts
00:44:10for a second he looked genuinely tortured
00:44:13then he laughed
00:44:15low
00:44:16helpless
00:44:17echoing off the concrete
00:44:19i'd never heard him laugh before
00:44:21i wanted to hear it for the rest of my life
00:44:24on the way down the stairs
00:44:26he held my hand the whole time
00:44:28not for the thoughts
00:44:30just to hold it
00:44:31i went home
00:44:32floating
00:44:36for the first time in five years
00:44:38i wasn't invisible to anyone
00:44:40i was still smiling when i brushed my teeth that night
00:44:47then my phone lit up
00:44:49grant sterling
00:44:51i know you're still close to kingsley
00:44:53photos don't lie
00:44:54then a picture
00:44:55my little sister lily
00:44:57and her blue scrubs
00:44:58walking into saint catherine's
00:45:00where she's worked for six years
00:45:02taken today
00:45:03from across the street
00:45:07saint catherine's biggest donor is the holt foundation
00:45:11one call
00:45:12and your sister is unemployed by monday
00:45:16next friday
00:45:17you stand on my stage and say elias ordered the leak
00:45:20or lily pays for your loyalty
00:45:24the toothbrush fell out of my hand and clattered into the sink
00:45:29i didn't pick it up
00:45:31i just stared at my sister's face on the screen
00:45:34lily
00:45:36the girl i'd walk to school every morning after dad left
00:45:43the girl whose birthday dinner i'd missed for a tokyo deck
00:45:48the one person who had never once asked me to make myself smaller
00:45:52five days ago
00:45:54all i wanted was a new job
00:45:57now the man i loved and the only family i had both hung on one sentence i'd say on that
00:46:04stage
00:46:08at 7 a.m lily called me from the hospital parking lot
00:46:12her voice was shaking
00:46:14they pulled my shifts
00:46:16pending administrative review
00:46:19six years harper and they walked me out like a criminal
00:46:25grant hadn't waited for friday
00:46:28it was a warning shot
00:46:29i drove to queens and found her in her scrubs on the curb
00:46:32eyes red
00:46:36i sat down beside her ready to give up everything
00:46:41she grabbed my hands before i could say it
00:46:44don't
00:46:46your whole life you've made yourself small so everyone else could shine
00:46:51don't you dare do it for that slime bog
00:46:55go burn his stage down
00:46:57when i got home derek mills was sweating on my doormat clutching a laptop
00:47:03i made a mistake he blusted
00:47:07grant asked what you were up to i told him you record every meeting the whole office knows
00:47:16i thought it would save me then his lawyers named me the mastermind
00:47:24i'm going to prison for him harper
00:47:29i'll give you everything
00:47:31just tell them i cooperated
00:47:34i let him sweat then i held out my hand
00:47:38the laptop derrick
00:47:41so grant would come for my recordings
00:47:46fine every good assistant keeps three copies
00:47:49that night i sent the files to kingsley's legal team and to kevin
00:47:53the temp who replaced me
00:47:56one line guard this with your life
00:48:03the first message on derrick's laptop was from vanessa to grant
00:48:07thursday at the investor cocktail i'll be wearing the ring
00:48:11let the secretary see it
00:48:14let her cry
00:48:18so on thursday i bought armor
00:48:21a red suit
00:48:23sharp shoulders
00:48:27that evening i walked into kingsley group's investor cocktail at the plaza
00:48:32on grant sterling's arm
00:48:35the plan needed the whole city to believe i'd switch sides
00:48:39the room went silent
00:48:41then the whispers hit
00:48:44the spy with sterling she has no shame
00:48:47across the room elisha stood by the windows
00:48:51he saw me
00:48:52he didn't blink
00:48:54only i knew he'd approved every step of this
00:48:57it didn't make it hurt less
00:49:01well well
00:49:03vanessa glided over in silver speckles
00:49:06a circle of investors wives behind her
00:49:08new job new man
00:49:10you work fast sweetie
00:49:12she lifted her left hand into the light
00:49:15a diamond the size of an ice cube
00:49:17elias proposed last night she announced
00:49:21after tomorrow's vote he'll need a wife with a board seat
00:49:24the women gasped
00:49:27phones came out
00:49:29vanessa leaned close
00:49:30go ahead
00:49:32cry
00:49:34i looked at the ring
00:49:36then i smiled
00:49:38i knew she'd staged the whole thing
00:49:41gorgeous
00:49:43eight carats
00:49:45there should be a number engraved inside the band just above the size mark
00:49:4844 71
00:49:53her face flickered
00:49:54excuse me
00:49:56that's a lux loan rental number
00:49:59they laser etch every ring they rent out
00:50:02anyone with a jeweler's loodle can read it
00:50:04that's insane she's lying
00:50:08is she
00:50:08an older woman in pearls stepped forward
00:50:11diane weiss
00:50:12her husband owned half the diamond district
00:50:15she pulled a tiny gold loons from her clutch
00:50:18i never go anywhere without one darling
00:50:21hand please
00:50:22vanessa tried to pull away diane was faster
00:50:28she held the ring under the chandel nut
00:50:30splint and her eyebrows rose
00:50:35four four seven one and a return date
00:50:40next tuesday
00:50:41the circle exploded
00:50:44somebody snorted chaffae
00:50:47laughter rolled across the room like a wave
00:50:53i've never bought mrs holter ray
00:50:56elias had crossed the room without a sound
00:50:59miss quinn
00:51:00miss quinn has handled every receipt i've signed for five years
00:51:05she's never been wrong
00:51:07not once
00:51:11as he turned away the back of his hand brushed mine
00:51:16red you wore red
00:51:19last day tomorrow hold on harper
00:51:22vanessa fled in tears
00:51:25by the bar kevin gave me a thumbs up with his whole arm and knocked over a tray of shrimp
00:51:31then grant's car
00:51:34the partition went up
00:51:35he held out his hand
00:51:37your phone
00:51:39eric says you record everything
00:51:41he dropped my phone into the ice bucket
00:51:43it sank without a sound
00:51:45tonight
00:51:46you sleep at my hotel
00:51:48my men stay outside your door
00:51:50he smiled
00:51:53tomorrow
00:51:54you say exactly what i tell you
00:51:57or your sister and your boyfriend both lose everything
00:52:02friday
00:52:03my last day as elias kingsville's employee
00:52:07i spent it walking into the four seasons ballroom on grant's arm
00:52:12past 500 sharelaters employees and a wall of cameras
00:52:17no phone
00:52:19no recordings
00:52:20two of grant's security men three steps behind me
00:52:25grant patted my shoulder and walked to the stage
00:52:28i stood frozen in the middle of the crowd and i couldn't breathe
00:52:33across the room aliyah was watching
00:52:35he hadn't heard from me since last night
00:52:38he couldn't know about the phone the hotel the guards
00:52:43all he could see was me next to his enemy in red not looking back
00:52:49the meeting began
00:52:51richard holt took the podium first
00:52:54the holt family has lost confidence in elias kingsley
00:52:59we're voting our 30 percent for sterling dynamics takeover offer
00:53:07a roar of whispers vanessa sat in the front row in white
00:53:10like a bride waiting for her wedding she caught my eye and wiggled her fingers
00:53:14bye-bye then grant took the stage he was good charming confident he showed
00:53:21charts of kingsley's falling stock price after the espionage scandal
00:53:25he talked about reckless leadership and a ceo who put his personal life before shareholders
00:53:32then he turned to the room with a sad serious face
00:53:37but you don't have to take my word for it
00:53:40today someone who worked beside elias for five years has agreed to tell you the truth
00:53:46ladies and gentlemen harper quinn
00:53:49every head in the room turned five hundred pairs of eyes a hundred cameras the spy secretary
00:53:56walking to the stage my heels clicked on the marble each step felt like a mile i passed the
00:54:03front row don't trip sweetie vanessa whispered i climbed the steps grant squeezed my arm and leaned
00:54:11in so only i could hear say he ordered the leak say he's unstable or your sister's suspension becomes
00:54:19permanent monday and you're the spy secretary forever
00:54:26he stepped back and smiled for the cameras i stood at the microphone somewhere in the fourth row elias sat
00:54:34perfectly still the whole room thought he'd lost the whole room thought i'd betrayed him
00:54:41and this time i couldn't reach him no hand to hold no voice in my head just me my knees
00:54:49were shaking
00:54:50under the podium and elias didn't know what i was going to say i looked at him anyway he looked
00:54:56back
00:54:57and very slowly so slightly no one else would notice he nodded whatever you say i'm with you
00:55:04i didn't need to touch him to hear it i leaned toward the microphone my name is harper quinn i
00:55:11said my
00:55:12voice shook then steadied for five years i was elias kingsley's executive assistant i answered his phone
00:55:19at 3 a.m i wrote his speeches i built project aurora with my own two hands and for five
00:55:25years he never
00:55:27once said thank you grant smiled wider vanessa leaned forward eager he never smiled at me i went
00:55:35on never asked about my weekend never complimented my work everyone in his building will tell you
00:55:41elias kingsley is the coldest man in new york murmurs cameras clicked mr sterling asked me to come up here
00:55:48and tell you the truth about him i turned my head and looked directly at grant so i will
00:55:55his smile flickered but first i said i need someone to plug in a laptop because every good assistant
00:56:03ladies and gentlemen keeps three copies of everything grant's face went white
00:56:10in the back of the ball whom kevin the temp lifted a laptop over his head i have it copy
00:56:16number two i
00:56:17guarded it with my life 500 people laughed grant didn't the giant screen flickered on and grant's
00:56:26voice filled the ballroom my guy at kingsley pulled everything off your account at 2 14 in the morning
00:56:33i paid him more for one night than you made in a year the room gasped then the bank transfers
00:56:41sterling
00:56:41dynamics to derrick mills three payments the last one the morning after the leak then texts between
00:56:49grant and vanessa planning the fake engagement the photographer outside my building every head swung to
00:56:55the front row vanessa's face went from bridal white to tomato red then because i'm petty the aurora slide
00:57:02if you are reading this derrick synergy has two whys in it laughter rolled through the room
00:57:10then grant grabbed the second mic
00:57:15and laughed louder than everyone ladies and gentlemen it's 2026 anyone can fake a voice with a laptop
00:57:23in five minutes that recording is edited ai a bitter ex-secretary with a grudge and a computer
00:57:32the laughter died heads tilted doubt spread through the room like smoke in the front row richard holt
00:57:40nodded slowly i felt the floor tilt under me then i remembered who i was five years of receipts
00:57:48the original file has been sitting untouched on kingsley's legal server tan stamp and metaneda intact
00:57:56any forensic firm you like can check it by lunch i turned to grant and you said my guy at
00:58:03kingsley
00:58:04would you like to meet him the side doors opened derrick mills walked in in a borrowed suit with two
00:58:11lawyers and a federal agent i sent the files derrick said miserably into the silence from her account
00:58:19for him he pointed at grant i'm cooperating fully please write that down the agent stepped forward
00:58:29mr sterling we'd like a word grant was sweating now
00:58:37but he still had one card fine arrest me for gossip it doesn't matter the holt family
00:58:47shares still vote with me kingsley still falls richard holt stood up slowly in the front row
00:58:55he wasn't looking at grant he was looking at his daughter you told me he said in a terrible quiet
00:59:03voice
00:59:04elias was engaged to you you told me that girl was a thief daddy i can explain the holt shares
00:59:11vote for elias kingsley richard announced to the room and you vanessa are cut off effective immediately
00:59:19vanessa burst into loud ugly sobs nobody moved to comfort her then elijah stood
00:59:26he walked up the steps and stood beside me at the podium one more announcement he said calmly
00:59:34mr sterling you wanted to buy my company i bought yours
00:59:41as of 9am this morning kingsley group owns 51 of sterling dynamics your board voted to remove you
00:59:4920 minutes ago grant's mouth opened and closed like a fish two security guards walked up the aisle
00:59:56the same two who had marched me across the executive floor they took grant by the arms
01:00:03please escort mr sterling out elijah said through the front slowly then elias turned to me
01:00:12sterling dynamics needs a new ceo he told the room someone brilliant someone who's done the work of
01:00:20three executives for years without the credit the board has already voted unanimously
01:00:27he looked at me harper quinn my hand went to my mouth he said she will report to an independent
01:00:35board
01:00:35not to kingsley group and not to me never to me the ballroom exploded applause cameras kevin crying in the
01:00:50back
01:00:53and i understood he hadn't bought my next company to keep me he bought it to set me free
01:01:03at midnight my notice would end for the first time in five years i would not be his employee
01:01:10elias stepped in front of me in front of 500 people he reached into his jacket pocket
01:01:17and pulled out a small black velvet box
01:01:24the whole ballroom stopped breathing 500 eyes 100 cameras
01:01:31vanessa's sobs cut off mid-hiccup elias held the box in his palm closed he didn't kneel harper he
01:01:40said not to the room to me i've had this for three years i'm not going to open it today
01:01:48a disappointed groan rose from the crowd someone shouted come on he almost smiled because for five
01:01:57years every decision was mine your schedule your desk your title i'm done deciding for you he pressed
01:02:07the closed box into my hand so this is yours now open it when you want to or never it's
01:02:15your choice
01:02:21the room then he took a breath the most powerful man in the room and looked nervous for the first
01:02:27time in his life today i'm only asking one thing have dinner with me tonight not as your boss
01:02:37as a man who's been in love with you since your first day the room waited i looked at the
01:02:43box
01:02:45i looked at him just dinner just dinner you're a terrible negotiator mr kingsley i'm aware
01:02:56yes
01:02:59he took me to the rooftop of kingsley tower the building where i'd spent five years feeling invisible
01:03:08he'd set up a small table candles and glass nyars the whole city glittering below us the food was
01:03:14from my favorite thai place in brooklyn extra spicy no cilantro
01:03:21how did you know no cilantro you pick it out of every lunch order every single one for five years
01:03:28he poured me a glass of wine
01:03:32i noticed everything harper i just never said anything i stared at him nobody had ever noticed
01:03:39the cilantro not my exes not my own mother it's a strange thing being truly seen for the first time
01:03:50it doesn't feel like fireworks it feels like setting down something heavy you didn't know you were
01:03:55carrying we talked for hours about maria he tracked her down last year and quietly helped her open a
01:04:04bakery in new jersey about lily who had texted me 11 times with the fire emoji about the day i
01:04:12corrected
01:04:13his spelling in front of the board you were right he admitted accommodate has two m's the wind picked up
01:04:21i shivered
01:04:26he stood came around the table and held out his hand i took it his thoughts came through faint and
01:04:33far away
01:04:34like a voice across a lake 11 58 two minutes left of her notice two minutes and i'm not her
01:04:44boss anymore
01:04:45and i can finally finally
01:04:50elias i whispered
01:04:52hmm
01:04:53you're thinking very loudly he pulled me gently to my feet and cuffed my face in both hands
01:04:59the city lights reflected in his eyes
01:05:03then let me stop thinking
01:05:06somewhere across the city a church bell rang midnight
01:05:09he kissed me slow careful like he'd rehearsed it for five years and was still afraid to get
01:05:17it wrong then not careful at all my hands slid into his hair his arms pulled me against him
01:05:25somewhere below us a taxi honked and all of new york city disappeared
01:05:32when we finally broke apart breathless i was smiling so hard it hurt i knew it was coming
01:05:38i'd known for a week it didn't matter i waited for his thoughts anyway the flustered ridiculous
01:05:45beautiful voice i'd grown to love nothing i pressed my palm flat against his chest his heart was pounding
01:05:54silence silence i grabbed both his hands held tight nothing no voice no thoughts just the wind
01:06:05my smile faded harper he frowned what's wrong panic climbed up my throat
01:06:14for two weeks his mind had been the one place i was sure of the one place he couldn't hide
01:06:21from me
01:06:21and now the iceberg was just a man again with a face i couldn't read
01:06:27i can't hear you i whispered elias i can't hear you anymore
01:06:36he was quiet for a long moment i held his hands so tight my knuckles went white still listening still
01:06:43hoping then he did something i didn't expect he smiled good he said
01:06:51good it's past midnight you're not my employee anymore he brushed a tear off my cheek with his
01:06:58thumb which means you don't get to hear my thoughts anymore not ever again you get to hear me say
01:07:05it
01:07:06he took a breath so listen harper out loud this time and the coldest man in new york started talking
01:07:14thank you for remembering my mother's birthday thank you for every sticky note thank you for tokyo my
01:07:21father's grave and every 3 a.m call you never complained about thank you for correcting my spelling in front
01:07:27of
01:07:2712 men who were too scared to my eyes filled
01:07:34you are the smartest person i've ever worked with you're braver than i will ever be
01:07:41i check my tie three times every morning because i want you to think i'm worth looking at
01:07:46and i've been in love with you for five years harper quinn every single day
01:07:53out loud i couldn't speak i just stood on that rooftop and cried because for five years i believed
01:08:02no one saw me and he had seen everything say something he said a little desperate i can't read
01:08:12your mind either you know i laughed through my tears grabbed his tie and kissed him again
01:08:20three months later my office at sterling dynamics had a real door with my name on it harper quinn chief
01:08:28executive officer lily took an icu job at a better at a better hospital with a raise and sent richard
01:08:35holt a thank you card derek took a plea deal grant's lawyers are still explaining things to a federal judge
01:08:45vanessa's publicist dropped her kevin became my assistant and i paid him double double what i'd ever
01:08:52earned and every morning at 8 15 a coffee appeared on my desk oat milk extra shot cinnamon on top
01:09:03delivered personally by the ceo of kingsley group who had no reason to be in my building one monday
01:09:09the coffee came with a sticky note your tie straightening services are still required
01:09:17my office terms negotiable i walked across the street to killsley tower through the lobby where
01:09:26the guards now held the doors for me i walked into his office without knocking elias looked up from his
01:09:32desk gray eyes perfect tie he checked it three times i just knew i had the black
01:09:39velvet box in my hand i'd carried it in my purse every day for three months
01:09:46you told me to open it when i wanted to i said
01:09:51he stood up very slowly i opened it the diamond caught the morning sun and lit up the whole office
01:10:00i want to
01:10:07elias kingsley who once signed away my resignation in four seconds took nearly a full minute to kneel
01:10:14because his hands were shaking
01:10:18harper quinn he said out loud in front of the window in front of the whole city
01:10:26will you marry me yes he slid the ring onto my finger then he stood lifted me off my feet
01:10:34and spun me around his office until i shrieked outside his glass door kevin three interns and half
01:10:41the executive floor were pressed against the glass applauding much later curled against his chest on his
01:10:48office sofa i asked the question i'd been wondering for months the first day when i fell into you with
01:10:55my resignation letter you really thought you'd buy whatever company i ran to he kissed the top of my
01:11:01head i did he said out loud she left i bought the company i gave it to her he smiled
01:11:10against my hair and
01:11:11somehow she still came back to me
01:11:14you