Chapter 13
Annika
Long after our first dinner as business partners had already concluded, I found myself lost in a trance and jolted back to the present when I was driving my own car back towards the penthouse. I didn’t even realize I wasn’t with Leon anymore and that he had already dropped me off at my car back at his office. It was as if my body was floating on autopilot while my mind was drifting in the cosmos; the entire drive home, the walk to the elevator, and the ordinarily painstaking wait to reach the top floor flew by in a daze.
Our conversation at dinner kept replaying in my head, and it was like my body had involuntarily chosen a new favorite song I couldn’t forget. The way Leon spoke to me was so attentive and not at all business-like. I had expected him to be more aloof an
