She Cheered for His Office Crush, Then Left Her Husband Behind novel · Chapter 14 of 24

Chapter 14: The Water Cooler

By the time I reached my desk on the eleventh floor, the photo had a hundred and four reactions.

The group chat had named it too.

The title of the thread was: HAYES + STRATTON, GARAGE, LEVEL 3, 7:41.

Under it, forty people had weighed in.

One said: "So the 'someone upstairs' is HIM?"

Another said: "I want the full file on this. I have a pretzel and time."

A third just wrote the word "Ivy?" with six question marks.

I sat down and put my bag on my lap, because I needed something to hold.

Across the floor, heads rose over cubicle walls one at a time.

Nobody looked at me directly. They looked at a spot a little to my left.

Tristan had gone up the stairs and into his office without a word.

I knew he was sitting behind that door doing what he did, which was reading everything and replying to nothing.

I opened a spreadsheet so my hands would have a job.

At nine-fifteen, the chair next to mine rolled out by itself, and Ivy sat in it.

She had on a red dress and her loud lipstick, and she was smiling at nobody.

"Don't say anything," she said.

"I wasn't."

"I've known since Tuesday."

I turned. "You've known what?"

"The ring. He wears it on a chain. You wear nothing on your finger, and you carry your keys in your left hand so nobody asks." She smiled at me with great warmth. "I'm strategy. It's my job to notice."

"You said you didn't know whose it was."

"I said I didn't know whose it was in front of him. I was being polite."

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