"Hello?" I answered, my stomach already doing flips. What could Hale possibly want with me at this time?
"I need your help getting some files boxed up so I can take them home tonight. Are you available to swing back by the office?" Hale asked.
There was something in his tone that took me by surprise. It was a gentleness, a genuine kindness like he knew asking me to come back to the office would be an inconvenience.
"I'll be there in about fifteen minutes," I told him.
"Thank you," he breathed, a clear sigh of relief. He hung up the phone without another word.
The flips in my stomach intensified. It seemed like these days, I must live on a roller coaster the way it was always churning. I should know better than to agree to something like that. It was after hours, the office would be mo
