~~~~KANE~~~~ The stillness in my study had become more than I could endure. Silence is what I hated. Because, it left too much room for thinking. And thinking has really become a problem for me lately. I stared at the towering stacks of paperwork on the polished mahogany desk. Expansion proposals, projections, and contracts, which all blurred together as my fingers tiredly tapped out a rapid beat. You know, work should usually helpin times like this. Like, it usually drowned out everything else. But heaves had it today, it wasn't even working at all. My eyes glazed over as I reread the same paragraph for the fifth time, the words refusing to sink in. Still yet, I haven't absorbed a single word. I just tossed the file aside with a curse under my breath. The chair made a creaking sou

