Chapter 19 - Bound and Determined

Cassidy walked into work feeling better than she did a few days ago. She was feeling confident and ready to take the week head-on. Cassidy drove right into her to-do list and stayed busy most of the morning. Each time something reminded her of what's his name, she would snap an elastic band around her wrist. In the beginning, she used it a lot around her house, but now it was getting fewer and fewer times that she needed it to remind herself she needed to forget him. She would forget about that man if it were the last thing she did. Cassidy was so caught up in her work she didn't realize that Mark, one of the Senior Editors, was standing by her desk. "I guess we can't say that you're not hard at work," he said with a chuckle. "Sorry, Mark, I was just trying to get ahead in my workload. Is there something I can help you with?" Mark smiled shyly as he brushed his fingers in the back of his hair. He didn't know what it was that made him so nervous around this girl. Usually, he was co