“You were talking to your sister and started laughing. I had my phone out.”
“Why keep it here?”
Edward looked around his office.
“Because when I sit at this desk, I want to remember why any of this matters.”
He gestured toward the drawings.
“I love the work.”
Then he looked at me.
“But the work isn’t why I have a reason to go home.”
The room went quiet.
Margaret appeared in the doorway.
“Sorry. Edward, the Morrison presentation is at two.”
He looked at me.
I looked at the box of notes.
“Go.”
“Rachel…”
“I’m not leaving.”
I took another note from the box.
“We have a lot to discuss, but you have a presentation and Jamie gets out of school at three-thirty. I need some time.”
Edward nodded.
“Stay as long as you want. Ask anybody anything.”
I looked toward the employees outside.
“They all know?”
