ELLIOT
“You look different.”
Adrian said it from the doorway of Elliot’s office at four in the afternoon without elaborating, the way he said things he considered self-evident and did not feel required explanation.
Elliot looked up from the compliance review he had been working through for the last two hours.
“Different how,” he said.
Adrian studied him for a moment. “Like someone who slept. Actually slept. Not the functional version you have been running on for the last two weeks.”
“I slept,” Elliot said.
“At Priya’s building.”
“In the sitting room,” Elliot said. “On the sofa. We fell asleep talking and I woke up at six.” He looked at Adrian steadily. “It was not what you are constructing in your head.”
“I am not constructing anything,” Adrian said, entering the office and sittin
