Tangled in His Web
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They settled into the conference room, the table littered with papers, laptops glowing in the dim light.
Alex worked like a machine—precise, efficient, utterly focused. Lily… not so much.
She hummed under her breath as she scribbled notes. She tapped her pen against the table when she got stuck. She muttered entire arguments with herself before writing anything down.
After an hour, Alex finally set his pen down with a sigh. “Must you narrate every thought?”
“Yes,” she shot back. “It’s called brainstorming. You should try it sometime instead of, you know, plotting world domination in silence.”