“Until later?”
“Untilnever.” She sighed. “There’s no point. You didn’t do anything wrong.”
“I slept with my boss.”
“I know, but…” She wiped my tears with her shirt. “It’s because you have feelings for him.”
“Had. Past tense.”
“Okay, fine.” She touched my arm. “Are you planning to talk to him anytime soon?”
I shook my head.
“So, how exactly are you going to quit?”
“By not showing up anymore,” I said, letting her wipe my face again. “He’ll get the point eventually.”
FORTY
HARRISON
Monday morning
“Here’s the Lay Group’s second proposal,” Aaron said, walking into my office. “Now, they’re claiming that they can turn things around with forty percent layoffs instead of what they said before.”
“Interesting.” I glanced at the doorway behind him, wondering why Andrea wasn’t steps behind him. Why she wasn’t armed with files and apologies for not returning my calls and ignoring my texts.
Her ridiculous tantrum should be long over by now.
“There’s also a proposal by the Kroger Group, but I’ve already told them we’re not keen on getting into the grocery business.”
“Uh huh…” I craned my neck to get a better view of the hallway. “Interesting.”
“You’re not even listening to me, Harrison.” He slammed a folder onto my desk. “We have less than six weeks to make a decision here, and you—whoa. Don’t take this the wrong way, but you look tired as hell today.”
“I didn’t get any sleep this weekend.”
“Sorry,” he said. “It seemed like you were doing a lot better for a while… Shouldn’t you call your doctor?”
He’s not the reason I was sleeping well…
“He says it’ll pass eventually,” I said, desperate to change the subject. “Repeat what you said again. I’ll listen this time.”
“Thank you. The Lay Group submitted a second proposal and…”
I tuned out his voice once more and picked up my phone.
I refreshed my inbox and my texts, knowing Andrea was seconds away from responding.
She better be.
By the time I’d finished checking, Aaron was staring at me and shaking his head.
“I’ll come back when you’re ready to join me on this planet, Harrison.” He sighed. “Maybe this afternoon.”
“I was listening to you, Aaron.”
“Right.” He looked at his watch. “Let’s just make it this evening.”
