"Al, what is really going on here? Why on earth would Mr. Anthony go out of his way to meet with Sarah?"
The sheer intensity of her own burning curiosity propelled Melissa right out from behind her cluttered desk. She stepped into the middle of the room, her sharp eyes locking onto Alvin, desperate for an answer to the sudden mystery unraveling before them.
For a brief, flickering second, Alvin was on the verge of spilling everything—every single word he had overheard, every suspicious look, every intimate detail of the warm embrace he had just witnessed through the crack in the door. But just as the truth bubbled up to his throat, an unexpected wave of hesitation washed over him, freezing the words in his chest.
