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Macy was lost in the novel she was reading, when the conductor jerked her out of her trance. “Next stop, Jenkintown!” he yelled.
Macy did not notice the passengers boarding the train until she heard a jovial “Morning, Macy!” She looked up to see the smiling face of Ethan Talbot, a new director in her division. “Morning, Ethan,” she returned. To her relief, he kept walking down the aisle to find a seat in the back of the train. Odd. Maybe he missed his usual train or just decided to board onto a different train car today, which would explain why in the weeks he had been employed at Sandlock Corporation she had never seen him on the train until now. Hopefully it would not be a regular encounter.
Ethan seemed likable on the surface, but Macy picked up an underlying energy in Ethan th
