ANNATORIA
With heart-racing giddiness, I returned to the main office. But I had barely stepped out of the elevator when Celeste jumped in my face.
“I heard something interesting,” she said, her voice hardly audible. Then, she hooked her arm into mine and gently shoved so that we could walk together. “I heard you have been very, very busy.”
“And that is strange to you?” Her eyes went wide, and she flinched like I had burned her.
With a frown pulling her face, she pressed her right ear, and I looked back at her while she asked, “Why the heck are you yelling?”
With a shake of my head, I readied my feet to move ahead. At the same time, I muttered, “I don’t have time for this.”
“Miss Annatoria, can you keep your voice down? You are not the only one here,” Kaelen called from where he was
