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Fix It
The next few weeks, Clay was intensely overworked.
He’d barely had time to breathe, let alone see Andrea. He’d almost forgotten what it felt like to be this overworked and not enjoy it. He wanted to be working a nine-to-five, getting off and heading over to Andrea’s to spend time with her. Instead, he was lucky if he could leave by midnight.
Andrea seemed understanding, but he worried that his past actions would be his downfall. Would he ever be able to escape that look in her eyes, the one that showed that he might be doing something wrong? Wondering if he was he at the office late for some other reason?
She never said those things. But it was like he could see her hesitancy.
Before, they had never had any of this doubt because they’d had an understanding. Now, she was sus
