Behind Closed Doors by Anna Stone

Author:Anna Stone [Stone, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2018-09-19T23:00:00+00:00

18

Lillian

Lillian left her apartment and got into the elevator, tapping her foot impatiently. Emma was coming back today. She had only been gone for a few days, but Lillian had gotten so used to seeing Emma every day at work. Without Emma there, her warm smile lighting up the room, the monochrome office seemed even more dull, the overworked employees even more lifeless.

Of course, Lillian would have to tell Emma about the incident with Thomas. She wasn’t looking forward to that conversation. But she was looking forward to telling Emma about her plan for them to spend some time together.

Lillian didn’t know what was wrong with her. The fact that Thomas had caught on to their relationship should have been a wakeup call for her to put an end to things. Yet here she was, orchestrating ways for them to be together.

Was it time to think of a more permanent solution? Lillian could find Emma another job so they could openly date. All she’d have to do was put in a few phone calls. But that would mean admitting that this was more than a fling. That would require a level of commitment that Lillian wasn’t sure she could make.

Lillian left the lobby and headed toward the office. She had barely taken a dozen steps before she stopped in her tracks. Parked across the road was a nondescript, dark gray sedan with tinted windows. Lillian wouldn’t have noticed it if it weren’t for the fact that lately, she had been seeing that very same car everywhere. Out the front of her apartment, by the office, even at a business meeting across town. It was like that man in the blue baseball cap all over again.

Was she being paranoid? There had to be hundreds of cars that looked like that in the city. Perhaps it belonged to someone who lived in her building. Still, Lillian took note of the license plate before continuing to work.

Soon she was buried in a mountain of paperwork and forgot all about it. When 8 a.m. rolled around, there was a knock on her office door.

“Emma,” Lillian said. “Shut the door.”

Emma closed the door and approached Lillian’s desk. “What’s the matter?”

“How’s your mom?” Lillian asked.

“She’s fine,” Emma replied. “What’s going on?”

“You might want to sit down.” Lillian gestured toward the chair in front of her desk. She desperately wanted to draw Emma into her arms and pull her in close. But she didn’t.

“Lillian. What’s wrong?”

“Relax, Emma. It’s nothing to worry about,” Lillian said. The desk seemed to loom between them. “But we need to be more careful from here on out.”

“Why?” Emma asked. “Did something happen?”

“Thomas is getting suspicious. He doesn’t have any evidence that there’s anything between us. But we’ve been much too careless about this.” Lillian folded her hands in front of her. “If we get caught, I could lose my job.”

“What? When you said there were rules, I thought you just meant—I don’t know—you’d get a slap on the wrist or something,” Emma said.

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