Business over pleasure
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Veronica Calhoun is an assistant in a major design company for advertising who takes her job very seriously. Her main goal is to get the promotion in the upcoming month and she is not willing to let anyone get in her way.
What she doesn't know is that she is going to face some challenges to get this promotion facing. What happens
CEO of Gallington Ahmad Tate bumps into her life changing everything for her will she give him a chance or put her job first ending her chance of possibly finding someone?
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