~ DESMOND ~I was scrolling through my mails while Claudia updated me on a few of the arrangements for the upcoming board presentation.Her voice was steady and professional as always, but something about her felt kind of off. There was a stiffness to her tone, an artificial calm that didn’t match the woman who had worked under me for years. She had always been confident, too confident at that but now it was like she was trying to fold herself into the smallest version of herself possible.She had become less casual and less bent on me, like she used to. Maybe she was finally about to respect my marital state at last. Still, there was something else beneath the surface, something uneasy.As I looked up from the screen of my computer, I caught her turning away from my gaze, her face angled sharply toward the window.Her hands kept fidgeting with her pen, her fingers tapping against the plastic over and over, fast and restless. Her eyes were unfocused, her face pale beneath her makeup.
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