After Hours

For the rest of the week, I barely saw Jared. He was busy preparing for a big trial out of town, and spent more time out of the office than in. It’s for the best. I didn’t know what that was between us, when I thought he might kiss me— temporary insanity, I suppose— but I needed some distance from it still.

The office had mostly cleared out the following Friday when a delivery guy came down the ha