Brat Mode Activated

Emma Jean had been working tirelessly since her strange meeting with Kenji. It was hard for her to concentrate. Her mind kept wandering back to when he touched her hand. Even now it still felt as if she could feel the heat emanating from where he touched her. What could he have been thinking of doing propositioning her that way? Each time her mind went down the rabbit hole, she would daydream about when she was a child meeting the guy that helped her. She naturally assumed it was always Kieran. They never talked about the details but Kenji seems to have more of an inkling of that day. Her memory of that day was blurry but his words always resonated with her.

“It couldn’t have been him. It just couldn’t have been.”

“What couldn’t have been?” Kieran came into her office right at the tail end of her vocal musings.

“Ah, just thinking aloud. So, what do you think?”

“Think about what?”

“about having Kenji working in the park again as an engineer?”

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