From the day they met and after they had become friends, Fey had never raised her voice at Eric, neither had she spoken to him in anger. This was the first time and she could not find any reason not to. Not after he had physically moved away from her and then accused her of unprofessional behavior. In two minutes, she had bathed him with words she would not ordinarily use and it was not only because of his actions and words. Her earlier irritation and anger at herself also served to fuel the heat of her words.
Eric stood wide-eyed at the response from Fey and he would have believed his words to be wrong, but from the look of her countenance, he had caught her at an awkward time doing something she was not supposed to. Fey looked as guilty as a child caught with its hand in a cookie jar a
