I was professional about it.That was the only way I knew how to be: thorough, meticulous, so controlled in my appearance that the struggle could only take place inside. I did my work. I provided him with answers, directed his calls, prepared his papers, and maintained all interaction within the pristine borders of the floor-to-ceiling windows and the pristine desk between us.I did not enter his office for no reason, I did not remain late. I answered his texts with data and not anything more than that. On the surface, I was, exactly as I should have been, everything I had been hired for.He noticed.He did. He was not the type of person who overlooked things, and this change, from how we used to be, to the new, carefully maintained professionalism of us, was not lost on someone who had paid such particular attention to me all along.He said nothing. That was the problem. Had he pressed, I would have pressed back. Had he questioned, I could have explained myself. Instead, he simply ad
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