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“Good,” I tell her, turning away, trying to not look like a fool “Then scraot work to do”

Brittney kisses o to my desk and unmute the call

But the line is silent I wonder if they’re already done? They can’t be The call was supposed to be for another half hour at least

“If you’re wondering what happened to the call, I told everyone we’d reconvene e never heard you answer any of our questions,” Cheryl says from the door to my office

I turn around She’s standing there holding her tablet and looking at me

“When you didn’t answer evenaround “Which is a very odd thing to do, even for you, considering the i here Ethan,” she finishes with

She’s looking at

“I got caught up, Cheryl…” I start to say but she fucking cuts me off

“Yes, I saw her heading to the elevator when I started co this way She looked happy,” Cheryl says and raises her eyebrows at me “Quite different from the way she looked from my office when she came up”

“She wanted off the project,” I tell Cheryl, not knohy I’ ”

“I see,” Cheryl says with a deep breath as if slad you didn’t sleep with her to make the point”

“Are you s sex smells, Cheryl?” I ask, not sure where this conversation is headed “Is that in your bag of tricks nowadays too?”

“I’ to the“Because I don’t think you realize what you’re falling into here”

“What?” I ask, walking to thetoo “You still think she’s the one who's going to steal the prototype for Simon?”

“No, Ethan,” Cheryl says turning tothe prototype, but at least you need to be honest with her”