Affairs Of The Heart

They’d been his family and now they were gone. And he’d done his best to leave them behind, moving cities, moving states. Burying them in his mind.

He shivered.

Suddenly he had to get out of there. Had to go somewhere—anywhere. He pulled open the door in time to see Philly placing some papers on Enid’s desk. She jerked around guiltily at his appearance, her face pale but her eyes challenging. Then she frowned and her features softened into something closer to concern. She took a step towards him.

‘Are you okay?’ she asked.

‘What are you doing here?’ he demanded. ‘I told you to go home.’

She stopped dead, her back stiffening. ‘I’ve just had two weeks leave. I have work to catch up on.’

‘You’re not fit for work.’

‘I’m pregnant,’ she said, forcing herself taller as if that would convince him. ‘I’m not ill.’

‘What do you call what happened this morning then?’

Her chin kicked up even as she coloured.

‘I think most people refer to it as sex.’

‘Not that,’ he snarled. ‘When you fainted.’

‘I’m over it. That won’t happen again.’

‘We’ll see.’ He looked around, settling his gaze on Enid’s empty chair before striding to the lift. ‘Tell Enid I’m going out.’

‘When will you be back?’

‘I don’t know,’ he said as he allowed himself to be swallowed up by the hungry cavern of the lift.

‘I don’t know.’

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