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The Whole Office Knows the CEO Can Hear My Thoughts

The Whole Office Knows the CEO Can Hear My Thoughts

RomanceCompleted16 Chapters

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People: Kieran Holt

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The office has already decided she is sleeping with Mr. Holt. The most they have touched is an award handshake he apologized for on the spot. Kieran Holt keeps promoting her for one reason: he can hear her thoughts, and every day she uses them to take him apart. A workplace romance about a polished boss and the employee who will not be polite, even in her own head.

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Chapter 1

Three months at this company, and my pay had already tripled.

The badge had a lead title on it now.

Everybody was sure I was sleeping with Mr. Holt.

All I have to say is this.

Your guess is unhinged.

The most he and I had ever touched was last month, when he handed me the top-performer award and his hand hit mine by accident.

He apologized on the spot. Like he'd just graduated finishing school.

There was only one reason I kept getting promoted and paid.

Mr. Holt could hear my thoughts.

And every day, in my head, I tore him apart.

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Three months in. Pay, tripled. The badge had gone from ops associate to Trust lead.

Same blue lanyard. I'd chewed the edge until it frayed.

Now the whole office thought Mr. Holt and I had a thing.

Version one. The year-end awards. Kieran Holt passed me the trophy, and his fingertips dragged the back of my hand. Two full seconds. There was a photo. The pixels were so bad it looked like we were already in bed.

Version two. Every day I walked into the CEO's office at three and walked out at four. Kieran Holt came out with his ears red, or rubbing his temples, like someone had wrecked him.

Version three was the wild one. I was the stand-in for the girl he never got over. The second she flew home, I'd be sentenced to the copy room.

All I have to say is this. If you're going to make it up, get the basics right. Mr. Holt and I shared an elevator for under three minutes. By the time it left your mouths, the kid would be old enough to buy his own beer.

The truth: the most Kieran Holt and I had ever touched was last month, when he gave me that award and his hand hit mine by accident.

He pulled it back like he'd been burned. Low. "Sorry." The tips of his ears went red. His eyes went somewhere else. Pure, like he'd never touched a woman in his life.

He was so committed to being a gentleman that it was a waste he didn't teach the whole office a manners class.

The real reason I got promoted, nobody would believe.

Kieran Holt could hear my thoughts.

And every day, in my head, I cursed him out until there was nothing left.

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16 Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Three months at this company, and my pay had already tripled. The badge had a lead title on it now. Everybody was sure I was sleeping with Mr. Holt. All I have to say is this. Your guess is unhinged.

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  2. Chapter 2

    It started my first day. My name is Amber Shaw. Twenty-six. New in Ops at Tidewell. My job was writing the lines for Echo, the AI livestream. Morning rush. The elevator was packed.

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  3. Chapter 3

    That afternoon HR messaged me. Conference room 3. My heart dropped half a floor. Nothing good comes from HR calling you in alone.

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  4. Chapter 4

    My first day in the CEO's office, the break room exploded. Besides Kieran Holt, there had been seven or eight other people in that elevator. All of them staring at their shoes, playing dead.

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  5. Chapter 5

    After that, I found the rule. Inside thirty feet of Kieran Holt, the harder I roasted him, the stranger he got. I thought, *Kieran's tie looks like a slide deck strangled it.

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  6. Chapter 6

    A new version of the rumor got around fast. Every day I went into the CEO's office at three and came out at four, and when I came out Kieran Holt's eyes were red, like someone had just been mean to hi…

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  7. Chapter 7

    Vera didn't like me. The reason was simple. She was on his stepmother's side of the family. Three years in the company and she was already VP. HR and the budget both went through her hands.

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  8. Chapter 8

    I got promoted. It was wrong in the way promotions get wrong. The badge went from ops associate to Trust lead. The pay jumped again.

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  9. Chapter 9

    The Trust rebuild was harder than roasting people. Actually doing it. We met until dawn. Version after version of the don't-buy prompt. Hair coming out in handfuls.

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  10. Chapter 10

    The next day, Claire Davenport arrived. White dress. Long hair. Standing outside his office like the girl he never got over, full loadout, straight out of a vertical drama.

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  11. Chapter 11

    The post hit number one on the hot list in half an hour. Vera moved fast. Email, complaint, anonymous report, one chain. The subject was clear.

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  12. Chapter 12

    I quit. The letter was very proper. Personal reasons. Thank you for the training. Wishing Echo sells. He set it on the desk, face down. "Reason." "I'm tired." "The post?

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  13. Chapter 13

    I lay in my rental for two days. On the third, Josh started messaging like the building was on fire. Amber. Vera took Echo. She pulled every don't-buy we built. Replaced them with "last three, go.

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  14. Chapter 14

    Vera's turn. She wore the whole righteous act. "This mess started with one former employee's mismanagement. The company has already dealt with it—" I didn't let her finish.

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  15. Chapter 15

    The day they took Vera in for questioning, the weather was good. Davenport ended the partnership. The engagement rumor died on its own. The hot posts on the company board changed direction.

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  16. Extra

    A year later. Tidewell's product launch. Echo shipped Honesty Mode. The AI host talked people out of impulse buys based on what they could actually spend. It hit trending the day it went up.

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