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“Maybe not,” Mr Bexley muses Clearly pleased to have kicked over two beehives, he plods off As he waits for the elevator, he looks back at us

“But then again, Doctor Josh, you may want to rethink that”

The elevator door closes as Josh’s silently ments around us Then he looks at me

“I was lying”

The silence rings like crystal wineglasses touched together

“Well, you’re quite a good actor I sure believed it” I pick up htness in rateful to hi We’re two racehorses pounding toward the finish line I’ve been flagging, but I’ve just felt the first lash of the whip I need to hold on to this fee

ling until I walk out of the interview

“I always have been I wasI’ve got a bad habit of snapping Look at me, Luce”

When I do, he repeats himself slowly “I did not mean it”

“It’s all right It’s what I needed” I use the same flat, icy tone that he’d just used with Bexley I have no idea how I can er feels like a blowtorch in ood actor too

His forehead has his trade an asshole? It’s all you seeet from me”

“You’ve just given me what I needed to hear”

Life is all about perspective, and if I choose to believe I’ve just received a boost to noreto keep iven me

My co with Danny to discuss working on my ebook project

“Wait We need to clear this up I can’t quite explain it yet, though” His face twists in agitation “The ti is all off I didn’t mean it the way it sounded”