ROWAN
"You — you don't mean that, do you?" She asks, eyes dilating, with a flicker of shock in them.
"I do. I mean every bit of what I just said. Stay the f**k away from my office."
"Why…" she shakes her head with an unsettling chuckle. "All I did was let Chester in. Why are you being this way over something so silly?"
"You lied to me. That's not silly, Bri. It's huge. It means that I can't trust your words as easily as I did anymore. It means there's always gonna be a low-key doubt in me whenever you speak. 'Cause I'll wonder if you're trying to fool me to cover up for someone else again. It means that you just lost the hundred percent trust I had in you. Do you get it?"
"Yes. Yes, I do. And I'm sorry...." She clings to my arm. "Please, Rowan. Don't be mad at me. Don't cut me off l
