Page 19 of Empowered
What was wrong with her! What had happened to compartmentalizing?
Someone knocked on the restroom door. “Everything all right in there?”
Lucas! What the fuck!
“Fine!” She blew her nose in her handkerchief. “Everything’s fine! Thank you!”
A pause. “All right. Just checking. Thought I heard something.”
Sarah had to get her shit together. She’d start by washing up and marching to her desk to get her work done, before…
Ah, fuck. Before her boss demanded her evening time as well.
“Ms. Clayborn.” The man was already standing by her desk, waiting for her to return. “We’re going to The Dark Hour tonight. I take it that won’t be a problem for you?”
God, what was it now? Another meeting? Reconnaissance? Torture?
“It’s not a problem.”
“You’ll be paid overtime, of course.”
Sarah forced a professional smile. “Then it definitely won’t be a problem, sir.”
Damon spared her one last look before walking away.
And Sarah spared herself one last sigh of misery before shoving it all aside. She had a job to do.
