SLOAN
If Valen had been aggravating before my heat, he had become insufferable since. He didn’t speak to me the rest of my first day back in his office, which was probably a good thing as I was warring between enraged with him and trying to figure out his endgame in keeping me around. He used email or the internal messaging system to communicate with me about his schedule and tasks.
The following day, I didn’t bother to bring him coffee. He was only in his office about ten minutes before he stomped out to make it himself. Suddenly, my task list had it specifically dictated at the top of each day. By lunch that day, I was informed that we would be going out for the afternoon, and I would be going with him.
My body was warring with my mind’s will to be rid of him. It had been a task to
