They looked at each other. Hayden wasn’t sure if she was aware of what her words were doing to him at that moment. Her open confession of love paralysed him right there, in the middle of the office building’s hall. The praise flattered him an awful lot. The knowledge that Lana was thinking about him in this way, put him into a crazy, feverish state. He leaned down to kiss her, but just then, the door of the lift opened. Three men in suits stared right at them. They got in. As the lift moved, they exchanged a few polite words, while Hayden’s fingers were nervously drumming on the upholstered wall of the booth. They got out at the level of the publisher, and Hayden drew her hurriedly by the hand towards his office. When they walked past Giselle’s desk, he told her that he wanted to see her a
