She hesitates. “I understand. We’ve already dealt with the biggest problems anyway. I can talk to Harry and have Levi replace you.”
“Thank you.” I take her hand for a moment before gathering my stuff from the floor. Katherine hands me my cell phone, which she must have picked up along with her own things in the boardroom after I ran out.
As I’m about to go, she asks, “Did he break your heart, Alice?”
I pause, staring at my hand on the door knob. My voice is dull when I say, “He broke me. In every conceivable way, he broke me.”
With that, I leave her office.
*****
One of the perks of being a senior lawyer is that I can work from home if need be without being answerable to anybody. I send Harry an email detailing our meeting with Acme Intech Corporation and tell him that I’ll be workin
