Alan
I stopped in my tracks the moment I saw her.
Cyril stood just outside the meeting room, her posture straight, her expression unreadable.
For a second, everything else around me faded, the voices in the hallway, the clicking of heels on the polished floor, even the faint hum of the air conditioner.
It was just her....And me.
My heart reacted before my mind could catch up. It tightened painfully, like it had been waiting for this exact moment and didn’t quite know what to do with it now that it had arrived.
She had changed.
It wasn’t just the way she dressed or carried herself, though that, too, had evolved into something sharper, more refined.
It was something else..... something in her eyes.
There was a distance there now, a wall that hadn’t existed before. A quiet restrai
