Present
Ellison
Hope had told me that she had gone looking for me because my stupid mind had forgotten to tell her about my impending interview at a 'gentlemen's club’ and now I have a bigger thing to worry about. According to Hope she hadn’t said anything that would garner suspicion, but if I knew anything about Brandon Carter, he sure would have something to say about a Hope Mary who enquired about me.
And as it happened I was just sitting down on my chair and reading the note he had left for me when the elevator doors opened and he walked out. His head down, his eyes focused on his iPhone but despite that, as he passed by my desk he called out over his shoulder. “My office, now.”
Although I dreaded the conversation we were about to have, in which no doubt I would lie again, and how
