‘Be an extreme darling and sort all that out for me.’ He still wore his Do Not Disturb; I’m Disturbed Enough Already T-shirt from Friday. ‘Have you been here all night?’ asked Charlie in surprise. ‘Not quite, babes. I got home in the early hours, but did a ‘you’ and slept in my clothes. Busy, busy, busy,’ he said and danced off towards Mr Fanton’s office. Charlie smiled, slipped off her jacket, and got to work. Or tried to, she just couldn’t keep her thoughts from wandering towards Ben Middleton. ‘Why couldn’t life be simple?’ she muttered as she switched on her computer. She flicked through the paperwork while she waited for the computer to boot up. She sighed, Melvin hadn’t given her anything to take her mind off Ben Middleton. But the truth was, assisting in brain surgery wouldn’t take her mind off him either. Charlie’s hand stilled as she caught a glimpse of a private letter sandwiched between business letters in her pending tray.
