The next Monday, everyone was back in the office and spent the whole day getting used to the work again. Around mid-afternoon I received a memo that our team would meet the next day to discuss a project we were working on.
The next morning, there we were, sitting at a meeting, going over finance and project reports. I looked down. I’m not sure what possessed me, but I sat back and my eyes drifted below the table.
She sat right beside me, her chair inches from mine. She had her legs crossed, left over right so she could lean closer to my side, and to the financial manager who sat directly opposite me. Her shoe was dangling from the toes of her left foot, just casually, as though the heel had slipped out but the shoe still held onto the toes by the smallest of margins, not wanting to let g
