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Guaranteed Human.

Part four.

They're on to us.

Those four words, ambiguous in meaning, was what greeted me as I opened up my Microsoft

Outlook one fateful Friday morning.

My heart began racing as I realized the message had come from none other than James Alexander,

my counterpart in Texas.

Anybody being on to her scheme of hiding under the radar scopes was undoubtedly trouble,

trouble that would manifest itself and the very next email that I opened.

It's never a good sign when the name in the from field is followed by an identifier in brackets.

And as I would learn, it was even worse when that identifier was recruiter.

I double-clicked on the message, plainly entitled question.

From nosy Mick in my business recruiter to moonshine subject question

hi moonshine my name is nosy and i'm currently doing a budgetary survey of the detroit of the

detroit operation unfortunately some of the paperwork for you seems to be misplaced.

I can't seem to place you anywhere on the company organizational chart.

Might you stop by when you have a minute so that we can sort everything out?

Oh, dude, O.B is about to be found out.

I don't know how O.P. is going to get out of this one.

This is too much.

A flush of heat swept over me, as well as a slight

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