Chapter 3
Talking about it just made Mackenzie feel guilty all over again. “I never should’ve let you go to Boston in the first place. If you hadn’t gone to Boston, you never would’ve met River. If you’d never met River…“[]
I jumped in with the obvious answer: “Then I wouldn’t have nine hundred million dollars.”
Mackenzie put her hands on her hips. “What’s more important–the money or those ten years of your life?“||
I tried to guess the right answer: “The money?“[]
Mackenzie looked like she wanted to shake some sense into me. “YOU’RE what’s important! If you’re miserable, all that money is worthless. Thank God you lost your memory, because if you remembered everything and did something stupid to yourself, what good would any of that money do?“[]
“Well… it could buy me a really nice headstone…“]
Mackenzie cracked up despite herself. “Oh my God, shut UP!“]
Mackenzie had always been incredible, and she still was. She was now a VP at some multinational corporation, pulling in around forty grand a month.
But she was constantly swamped with work and business trips, and she worried about leaving me alone.
So she started dragging me along everywhere. Eventually she figured if she had to babysit me anyway, why not put me to work?]
She got me hired as her assistant at her company.
I was so ready for this! I’d spent months reading like fifteen different romance novels about powerful bosses falling for their assistants.
On my first day, I strutted in wearing this killer business dress, feeling like I could take on the world.]
I made her coffee, organized her files, ran around doing errands.]
was trying so hard to impress her that she finally started laughing and told me to chill. She handed me a spreadsheet and said, “Have Ava show you the ropes on this. Take your time learning–no rush.“]
“Got it!”
And just like that, I officially entered the workforce.
I started following Mackenzie’s schedule, but since I didn’t have much on my plate, I usually got off work way earlier than her. Mackenzie, on the other hand, was buried in work. I’d hang out in the break room waiting for her to finish up every night.[]
One day, Mackenzie caught me watching online tutorials on my phone and suddenly got serious. “Willa, do you actually want to learn this stuff for real?”
“Yeah… I really do.”
With the memory loss, I was basically starting from zero at work. I kept screwing things up and it was getting pretty depressing.
Mackenzie had always been my role model growing up, and that hadn’t changed. I wanted to be as effortlessly competent as she was. She made everything look so easy and cool.[]
So Mackenzie enrolled me in classes. After work every day, I’d drive to night school.]
Chapter 1
I took project management courses mixed with software training programs.[]
I filled up two entire notebooks before things finally started clicking. Oh, that’s how it works!
When I finished that program, Mackenzie signed me up for accounting and finance classes.]
After a full year of studying, I finally had my lightbulb moment.[]
Everything made sense now, and work started feeling natural.[]
