My Family Asked What Emergency Needed The Receptionist

with care. “I didn’t know she was CEO.”

“Don’t,” I said.

She looked at me then.

Finally.

Not over me. Not through me.

At me.

“You let everyone think…” she started.

“I let you think what you wanted.”

“That’s not fair.”

I laughed once. It came out ugly. “Tonight? You’re going with fair?”

Her face flushed. Good. Petty thought. Still mine.

“You were sitting at the continue reading …