Fowler buried his head in the place.
The other colleagues pretended to be busy with their food as well.
Samantha’s face had gone beet red.
Austyn asked herima frosty voice, “Have Theen acting out of sorts for the past few days?!
Samanthadidn’t dare to nod.
She wasn’t weee if the question was thetorical.
“What’s the matter?‘ Austyn stand at her cat got your tongue?
Samanthamumbled something under her breath
“Speak up!” Austynised his voic
Samantha almost jumped
She said in a hurry, Uh, no, Boss, of course not! You are not acting strange at all!”
Austynamowed his eyes and kept up that interogative gaze.
Samantha squirmed in her chair.
None of her colleagues came to
to her rescue.
In the end, she had to say, “Maybe maybe a little bit. You i are a bad, th, a tad sheet with everyone over the past three days. But it’s perfectly understandable! Everyone has one of those days. I mean, we are all human beings. It’s only natural for you to feel..
Her voice trailed off as she saw her boss’s face darken
Austyn cast his mind bark.
Come to think of it, he was rather moce short–tempered than usual.
Why, though?
Did it have something to do with that woman’s disappearance
She promised to send him lunch every day, but stopped after just a week
He wasn’t local
Maybe she’d returned to Stamfont.
but why didn’t she say goodbye?
dim how obsessed she was with him, austythought she would at least call or text him before she left
But she didn’t.
Austyn ran his schedule in his mind.
Maybe it was time for a business trip
Austynsat on a bench outside the doctor’s office and massaged his throbbing temples.
He didn’t catch the flu while he was in finton, but started running a fever the day he landed in Stamford.
After spending a whole day cooped up inside an air–conditioned, windowless mom, he was feeling faint and fatigued.
His nose was stuffy.
Every part of his body ached.
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