OFFICE AFFAIR WITH MY MARRIED BOSS PT 4The conference room lights stayed on at full brightness past two in the morning, harsh and unforgiving, the kind of fluorescent glare that made everything look slightly clinical. Whiteboards along two walls were dense with notes, timelines, and crossed-out figures in Dominic’s precise handwriting and Nadia’s neater script. Empty pizza boxes sat open on the side credenza, grease stains dark against the cardboard, the smell of cold cheese and tomato sauce still clinging to the air. The long table held open laptops, scattered printouts, half-drunk coffees gone cold and ringed with brown, and a single forgotten legal pad covered in arrows and question marks. Everyone else had left more than an hour earlier, the last of them offering tired jokes about overtime and the promise of real sleep.Nadia sat at the near end of the table, scrolling through the latest cost projections. Her eyes burned from the screen. The numbers blurred if she stared too long
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