Mark noticed the change before anyone told him about it.
It wasn't anything Elena had said. It was the way people looked at her now in the hallway — a half-second longer than they used to, like they were recalculating something. He told himself it was just the new-Director novelty wearing off soon enough. He told himself a lot of things that week.
"Big plans for the digital rollout, I hear," he said, cornering her by the coffee station on Thursday morning, his voice pitched somewhere between friendly and probing. "Ambitious for someone two weeks into the job."
"I like to think I know the campaigns pretty well," Elena said, stirring her coffee without looking up.
Something in her tone made him pause. Mark had spent three years reading Elena's moods off her voice alone, and this wasn't t
