^ Margot, Marley and Sasha

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Monday morning I walk into Martinez Enterprises.

On my way to the mail room Sasha Marley and Margot stop me.

Sasha has tears in her eyes. "I'm really sorry for the problems I've cause you."

Marley throws herself at me. "I'm sorry too. I didn't think you would end up in hospital."

Margot scoffs. "It's a shame she didn't die."

I shake my head. "You know all that bitterness isn't good when you need to raise a child. Your daughter will turn out like you if you don't shape up."

Cody walks through the door. "What's going on here?"

Margot throws herself at at Cody. "she called me bitter and telling me how it's going to be with Kendall."

Cody pulls away from her. "Sil, she's right. If you get over this I'm sure you'll become friends with Daniela."

Margot shakes her head. "I can't be friends with her."

I walk into the mail room and start sorting everything out.

Sandra walks into the room. "I didn't see you last night. How did the rest of the date go?"

I smile. "He's sweet. He asked me out on a date for Friday night. I'm scared."

Sandra laughs. "Is this your first date?"

I nod.

"I'll take you shopping on Friday night. We'll find you the perfect dress and matching heels."

I hug Sandra. "Thank you."

Sandra and I finish sorting out the mail. "You should go upstairs and give these to the bosses upstairs."

I shake my head. "I'm going to make them wait."

I drop off the mail to the people on our floor.

Sasha looks up when I drop the mail on her desk. "Mr Martinez, put us on a 60 day probation for the things we did to you."

"Good, I hope you girls won't do that to anyone else."

"Why did Cody leave the mail room sad that day?"

I shake my head. "This was all about Cody?"

She nods. "Yeah, a lot of the girls here have crashes on the guy. I'm one of them."

"Stay away from me, Sasha. That way we won't have a problem."

I stand on a table close to me.

"What's Daniela going to do now?" Someone asks.

I smile. "I would like all your attention, please." Sandra walks out of the mail room and shakes her head. "Now, I have your attention. I would like to say we are not in University or High School. We are adults and we need to act like it. Those who are crushing on our boss Cody Black. Get over it. He can chose who he wants to date and it's not right to punish a person he has feelings for. Jealousy comes from a black heart that's not beating anymore and from what I can see in this room you are all alive."

Sandra grabs my hand and helps me off the desk. "Do you always have to grab people's attention?"

I smirk. "I'm not me. If I don't have a little attention. I better head upstairs or I'll be seeing Mr Black in our part of the office."

I wheel the mail trolley to the lift.

Margot stops next to the lift. "Can you help me be a better person. Someone that my daughter can look up to? I know Cody's tried to help me. It seems to not work with him because he looks too much like his twin."

"I'll help you out, Margot. I want you to know I have no intentions of hurting your brother-in-law." The door opens and I step into the lift.

The ride takes longer than usual.

When the door opens on the top floor I see people running around with paperwork in their arm.

The top floors never been busy before.

I walk over to Dick's table and place the mail on his desk. "What's going on?"

He sighs. "Some has hacked into our server and they are stealing money from the company. The IT guys are having problems blocking them."

"Dick, go to my parents house. Grab the black laptop from my room and bring it here. GO NOW!" I yell.

Dick runs from the room.

Cody walks out of his office. "What are you doing up here?"

"Helping with the situation. Where are the IT guys?"

"They are on the second floor. The door is across from the lift it will say IT on the door."

I nod. "Keep an eye on this. Call me if the screen blacks out." I run down the emergency stairs to the IT room.

I push the door open and jump behind the computer.

"What are you doing?" A guy asks.

I smile. "I'm putting up my firewall. I created one that hackers won't be able to break into. I put all sorts of things in the firewall that people won't guess. And they normally get three tries before my firewall crashes their computer."

"Where is this firewall?"

"On its way. I sent someone to get my computer." I keep typing things into the computer.

An IT guy looks up from his computer. "We are taking back control of our networks."

My laptop is placed on my lap. I type the firewall information into the office computers and watch as mine takes over the system.

I shut the laptop off. "It's done."

I walk out of the room and head upstairs.

In my father's office I see he has his head on the desk.

I knock on the door.

"Go away," I walk into the room and sit across from him.

"Dad, that's not the way to talk to me."

He chuckles. "Sweetie, we lost over five million. I should have called you in earlier to fix it."

I shake my head. "I stopped it before five million was taken. They only got five hundred. Dad it was someone in the company that gave the criminals access into our servers."

"Do you know who?"

I nod. "You might need Mr Black in here. He needs to hear, this."

A couple minute later, Cody walks into the room.

He looks at me then at Dad. "What going on?"

"I know who helped hack into the computers. It was Margot Black."

Cody passes the room. "She wouldn't do that."

I touch his arm. "She did. I traced everything back to her computer."

He pushes me aside. "I don't believe it." Cody slams the door.

Dad leaves the office and heads downstairs.

Dick walks over to Dad's office. "What was that about?"

"Someone in this office helped steal money from the company. This person heard about the hole on the firewall on our servers."

"How do you know about the hole?"

"One of the IT guys talked about it the day we had the  zero tolerance bullying meeting."

Dick shakes his head. "You should have told someone."

I laugh.

Dick looks at me like I've lost my marbles. "What?"

"I went to hospital that day. It's not like I could have warned you all from the bed whole I lied in a bed like Sleeping Beauty."

"Are you going to tell Prince Charming who you really are?"

I nod. "I'll do it next month."

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