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Harmony
She sighed when she got off the phone with Garrett, clear his schedule and all day? It was all
she ever seemed to do, she shook it off. Looked at his schedule, he had nothing until 10:30, so
that gave her time to do it, she supposed, and she would start with the earliest ones. Though
it was already ten to ten, it was likely his first appointment of the day was on their way.
She got up from her desk and headed off to talk with both Ryan and Dallas‘ secretaries, to see
if they could take some of the appointments; where she could fit them in, explained the
situation and got both their schedules for the day to start trying to sort it out.
Wyatt’s secretary was doing the same thing. She looked at Harmony and shook her head, “so
the year of rearranging begins“.
She returned to her desk ten minutes later and started making those phone calls, his first
appointment was going to Ryan, because it couldn’t be changed, and Laurie saved her
backside by strolling up to her and holding out her phone. There was a text from Garrett.
‘Can you take some of my meetings for me? I’ve got to go to Denver today.’
She smiled. “Thank you. I’ve got a few annoyed people that want to have their meeting today,
instead of tomorrow or later this week. They have deadlines to meet themselves.”
“I’ll take them, I know the business, I won’t make any actual deals, but nut out the nitty–gritty of it all for us and them.” Laurie smiled. “All three of us learned the business, it’s all good
Harmony, I’ll sit in his chair while he’s gone. My schedule isn’t that full today. Luckily for
Garrett.”
Ryan brought her coffee at 11am and smiled at her. “Relax a little, this happens all the time, and sometimes.” He chuckled. “It’s all four of us clearing our schedules, those are the days that are hectic. Take a breath, Garrett is actually known to send out apology gifts to those he’s inconvenienced by having to reschedule.”
She smiled at him and thought about that, apology gifts, she’d read something about those during orientation. It was part of Garrett’s secretary’s job to organise them.
She pulled out that folder under her desk entailing all her work duties and there it was a list of client names and appropriate gifts to be purchased and sent off to them. Next to it was a list of reasons as to why the gift was needed. And gifts to go with the reasons.
Those gifts were dependent on what had to be rescheduled and how many times it had
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happened, and for how long they had to wait as well. She set about following the apology gift register as well,
She wrote a list of what needed to be bought and sent out. There were seven gifts in total, though as she looked at them, she had no idea how to pay for them. She’d not yet gotten her company credit card, though she knew it had been ordered. She’d had to fill out the paperwork for it upon coming back to work on the 2nd. Now she understood why she needed one, she
guessed.
She put a call to Dallas‘ secretary Tonya. She could see from here that both Wyatt and Ryan’s
secretary were on the phone. “Yes Harmony.” Tonya had checked the extension line of the call.
“I have a question. I’m hoping you can help me with?”
“Ask.”
“The apology gifts to be given out, I’ve not received a company credit card yet.”
“Oh, that’s easy. You might not even have to go out and get anything, there’s a store room here
on the 12th floor. Come down, I’ll show you.”
She walked with Tonya and was shown to a store room full of shelved gifts. She shook her
head as Tonya explained things, and helped her find the seven items. They were all in there.
Even showed her how to package–them. “You’ve been here for a long time huh!” Harmony
murmured.
“Yes.” She chuckled. “Dallas hired me about five years ago, when his last secretary took
maternity leave and then decided not to return to work. So I got offered the job permanently. It gets a bit hectic, but I like the job. Some days are dead quiet, and I sit and get paid to twiddle my thumbs.” She chuckled. “We like to consider those days a bonus for the hecticness of the
rescheduling days.”
“Hmm, I’ve not seen that yet.” Harmony nodded.
“You will get them too. Generally it’s all of us on the same day, about once every five or six weeks. You’ll be board sitting at your desk, bring a book on those days or something you like
to do. Garrett and the boys won’t care. Wyatt’s secretary sits and knits, brings in a footstool and a basket of yarn.” She chuckled. “It’s cute as, she’s got grandchildren on the way and knits tiny outfits.”
She smiled and thanked her for her help, sat back at her desk and wrote out the cards which she’d seen had to be handwritten to add a personal touch and then called Kaleb and Amy, the 12th floor’s personal runners, to head off and deliver them as per the directions under that
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apology gift section of her job.
It was lunchtime before she knew it and she got up to go and eat and was glad she didn’t have
to run them out all over the place herself. Her day was quiet after that, just her usual meet and greet and taking phone calls. Laurie stood before her at five, “I’ll take you home. You came
with Garrett, right?”
“Yes.” She nodded. “Thank you.”
“It’s all good. We all live in the same place, meet you in the lobby in five minutes.”
She attended her Pilates class at six thirty that evening and was nice and relaxed ready for a hot shower when it was over. She walked into her and Garrett’s apartment at almost eight after standing around talking to the others in the class for a bit.
He was there sitting on the lounge,, his tablet in his hand. He looked up and smiled at her. How was your day?” he asked, putting his tablet down and getting up to walk over to her.
“Busy.” She told him. “Got me a full look into your clear my schedule world.”
He chuckled a little. “Yeah, it happens often and most of the people I know do understand that it happens. Nearly all my contracts have a clause about it in there. Hopefully it wasn’t too much for you to handle.”
“I nearly forgot the apology gifts. If Ryan hadn’t mentioned it, I likely would have.” She sighed ” Your company has some weird but thoughtful policies.”
“Yes it does. I didn’t make all the rules, I just follow them.” He smiled “In place before I took
over.”
“So, tomorrow will be a normal day, yes?” She asked.
“Yes.” Garrett chuckled. “Now, why didn’t you tell me sooner about your birthday being this
week?”
She stared up at him. “I just kind of forgot about it until I was looking at the calendar in your schedule. A lot has happened in the past month.”
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“I guess it has, but how do you forget your own birthday?” he tugged her ear. “Everyone
celebrates it.”
She shrugged and sighed a little because no they didn’t, or she didn’t, and he tilted her chin up “Explain.” He muttered knew there was something.
“I haven’t really celebrated my birthday in years.” She muttered and even knew why, because someone else’s birthday felt the day before and was more important than hers was. She’d
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always hated that because deep down she’d known it to be true. Regardless of the excuse that
had been given.
“What is that look I’m seeing?” Garrett murmured, his eyes narrowing on hers.
“Chloe’s birthday fails the day before mine, on the 14th, and she always has a massive
celebration, either at her family estate, or the Blackwells even, and Damien was always or claimed to be hungover on my birthday, so mine was just kind of pushed aside, I’d get a gift.
sent out to the house or lunch with him if it wasn’t a work day.” She sighed “He just swept it
aside, guess now I know why.”
“Does his cruelty ever stop?” Garrett muttered and slid his arms around her.
“Oh you shouldn’t do that, I’m all sweaty and smelly from Pilates.” She tried to push him away.
“Like I care, you’re all hot and lathered in sweat after we roll around in our bed. I like it.” he
smiled at her.
“Don’t even think about it.” she pointed up at him. “I’m going to shower and change.” She saw
a smile spread across his face. “No,” she told him. “I’ve not had dinner yet, and I’m hungry as
well. You’ll starve me and our puppy.”
He burst out laughing “Go, I’ll organise dinner. What do you feel like?”
“Pasta.” She smiled up at him. “I really want to eat pasta alfredo with a side of grilled chicken.
”
“I’m on it.” he leaned down and kissed her. “I missed not seeing you all day today.” He
murmured before letting her go.
“You missed touching me.” she chuckled as she walked away towards the bedroom.
“Yes, I missed that too,” he stated.
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