His voice stopped me. Colder than usual.
I turned around, keeping my face still even though my stomach twisted in that stupid way it always did around him.
He didn't look at me.
He just walked past and said, "Follow me."
No pause. No softness. No question.
Just a command and my feet moved without my permission.
We reached his office. He sat down. I didn't.
I stood there with my arms crossed, trying not to show how my skin was screaming, how just being in the same room as him made everything ache.
"Why did you call me in?" I asked keeping my voice as neutral as possible.
He slid a file across the table.
"New project," he said. "You'll coordinate the next phase of the Lexum-Mira integration. I want proposals by Friday."
My heart, which had been stupidly hoping for something, anything... else, deflated like a balloon punched in the gut.
Lexum-Mira.
That was it? No teasing or purposely trying to get in my nerves.
