Too late, Ex. NOW WATCH ME RISE
He stared at the exit, his jaw locked, a subtle muscle twitching beneath the smooth skin of his cheek.
“Um,” Maya started, her voice small and tentative as she lowered her pizza back to the paper plate. “Are you… is she okay?”
Nathaniel turned his head slowly, his dark eyes focusing on Maya as if realizing for the first time that Lillian hadn't been sitting alone. He cleared his throat, his posture instantly reassembling into the cold, impenetrable wall he wore in the boardroom. “She is fine. Please excuse the interruption.”
“You’re really her husband?” Maya asked, her natural curiosity overriding her fear of the intimidating stranger. “Like, the actual Brooks Group Brooks? She never told me