First and Second chances
She put the pen to paper, her movement quick and hasty, as if wanting to finish before she could change her mind.
Jason slid the documents towards himself and stored them carefully away, his movements controlled and deliberate. “Good,” he said. The air in the room seemed to change, heavier, more concentrated, as if his words themselves lowered the oxygen level. His gaze moved from Cassy to Ethan and finally lingered on me. “The reason Elizabeth already knows more than you do about the gala,” he began, “is because she’s the one organising it.”