You Missed the Boat
But the very next second, she spoke again, her voice muffled.
"I'm leaving on a business trip today. I won't be back for a whole month."
She paused, seeming to hesitate, before finally blurting out, "With Adrian."
I felt like I'd fallen into an icy lake. My hand froze midair, the spatula hovering over the pan.
Lately, nearly every argument we had had was because of Adrian Blackwell, the new assistant she had hired. He was a young man who kept harping about "where there's a will, there's a way", but was actually completely incompetent when it came to doing the actual work.
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