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Bella hears a knock on the door, followed by it opening and Tanya pecking her head through, "may I come in?" she asks.

"Of course come in."

This is definitely not the time for Tanya to show up. Her office is a hot mess, she will be interviewing for interns in ten minutes and just her luck, her assistant/secretary has been sick since she started working two days ago.

"So how are you doing so far in our company?" Tanya asks her. If she is bothered by the mess, she doesn't comment on it.

"I am doing just fine. I actually will start interviewing for interns today in ten minutes."

"Oh, then let me get out of your hair," Tanya tells her jumping to her feet and leaving her office before Bella could stop her, not that she would have to begin with.

Bella gets to arranging her office and goes over the resumes of the seven people she will be interviewing today. She was very picky with whom to call back after HR gave her the list of the people applying for the intern position.

She had very specific criteria in choosing them. She is not necessarily looking for someone with a 4.0 GPA. But she is looking for individuals that got a 4.0 in specific subjects.

She also choose ones who excelled in humanities. She believes that excelling in both humanities and sciences means that you have a wider range of skills than a person that excelled in science alone.

She also did not pick any students that didn't prove their social skills through involvement in a school activity. Her job involves working with people who are very difficult to deal with. You can't work for her if you don't have people skills.

The last thing she needs is one of her interns being a social imbecile. That is how she ended up with seven people applying for the job when she received the resumes of 20.

Over the next almost three hours she conducts interviews. She originally allotted thirty minutes for each of them, but for two of them, it became pretty clear within the first ten minutes that they won't make the cut.

Both of those young men were arrogant idiots with inflated egos given that they have the weakest resumes out of the seven people that are interviewing. Making up for their incompetence by being egotistical might work for someone else, but it won't work for her.

While the other two were neither as bad, nor as egotistical as the first two, they still were not on par with what she expected. She does not have a team, which means that she will depend on her interns a lot. They won't be able to handle the responsibilities she assigns them. She doesn't have the luxury of hiring charity cases. Which is what they would have been had she hired them.

That leaves her with her three top picks.

First on the list is Luna Mathews. She is good at both humanities and science with 4.0s in all of the grades that matter. But this is not where Luna truly shined. It's her social skills that set her apart from the other two. They are unmatched by anyone. She can talk circles around the best of the best and can get a sailor to buy bottled sea water from her. She almost reminds her of herself.

Second, on the list is Michael Peters. His social skills are fine. His grades in humanities are great. It's his performance in specific classes that impressed her. Even more, the designs he submitted for those classes is what caught her eye. Some of the best designs she has seen by a person of his level of inexperience.

Last on the list is Angelina Jackson. She is the missing key to the team of three interns she has been unconsciously building in her head whether Eleazar will like it or not. She is not just good at humanities. She got an English Literature degree before working on her current one and has graduated with honors.

Having decided on three interns not two like Eleazar originally gave her clearance to hire, she sets out to talk to him and tell him of her decision. She checks the time on her phone. She told Marco that she will meet him in her office in ten minutes. So she sends him a quick message to meet her outside Eleazar's office before she goes in.

She knocks on the door twice then turns the handle of the door and opens it after he calls out, "enter." She walks into his office and sits on a chair opposite him and waits for him to wrap up his phone call.

After much random chatting and goodbye, he places the phone on the receiver. "I heard from the HR department that you were interviewing for interns. How did that go?"

"It was very fruitful. I picked three," she tells him smiling. He gives her a look as he says, "you know I haven't authorized you hiring three interns, only two."

"Too bad I already hired them. You don't want Denali Corporation to gain a reputation for hiring people only to reject them," she tells him smirking. Truth is that she didn't hire them. But he doesn't need to know that.

"And what made you decide to go against my direct orders?" he asks his eyes shooting daggers at her.

"I saw this as the soundest decision to make and took the initiative. Two is not enough if you want us to be any competition to the other established companies and offices in Landscaping and the three of those are too good for me to let any of them slip through my fingers."

"You know I am starting to regret this. If only I didn't publicize that." He tells her as he gets off his chair and goes to the liquor cabinet behind her.

He pours himself a drink and gulps half of it before he asks her, "Again why are you here?"

"I hope you are not trying to back out of our deal. Let me give you a refresher in case you can't remember. The deal was that you will send me to work in Italy for four years to learn and scope the Landscaping industry in Europe so we would have an edge over our American competitors. Once the four years are over, I return and start a Landscaping department in your company. I stayed there for five. Even though my maternity leave was only six months long. I stuck to my end. It's your turn to stick to yours."

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