Chapter seventeen

After a troubled conversation with Cassian, I leave the room and Tásia waits for me with both hazelnut eyes very attentive. She looks like my neighbor, the owner Marta is so gossip, that if doubt she knows a gossip before it happens.

- How was it? He fired you?

She asks with palpable distress in her voice, almost smiling at her concern.

- No, I begged him to stay, I think he took pity on me.

I lie to my face and almost feel my nose grow.

- You have no idea the relief I’m feeling, this company is not the same without you.

Tásia smiles and I reciprocate. I approach her and hug her, I feel like Judas himself now, but I need to enjoy while I still have her friendship. Anastasia’s hug is so warm, it feels like the hug my mother gave me when I was little. I feel welcomed in it.

- Now I need to leave, I’ll go back to work tomorrow.

I talk after I get away from the warm hug.

- All right. See you tomorrow, see if you can take my calls.

Her eyes get serious, but I know she only cares about me.