As Austin is about to answer me, an all-too-familiar figure slips between the sides of the curtain… Amanda Brown. “Excuse me for disturbing you, Mr. William… but Mr. Peterson would like to have a word with you.”
Oh, I can’t believe it! This woman has the knack of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. .
“Thank you, Miss Brown. I’ll go see him as soon as I can.”
Amanda’s eyes are glancing from Austin to me. She seems upset and worried at the same time. “He insisted on seeing you as soon as possible because he has to go soon.”
Austin stares at Amanda, unfazed. “Noted.”
Amanda smiles, but I feel like she’s keeping her composure. She doesn’t like to see that Austin is in no hurry to leave me. She needs to stop her games.
She had managed to turn Austin against me wi
