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Why did she call him Spence?
Harper groaned, putting her face in her hands. She'd given up battling, trying to convince herself and everyone around her that she wasn't emotionally attached.
She evidently was. She had called him Spence.
She felt frustrated with herself. Getting to the point in her career as a female journalist had taken years and years of hard work and self-discipline. She couldn't understand how all that regimen had unravelled because of one man.
Harper wrote and re-wrote an email to Spencer. It felt better than sending a text – as if at least some of her professionalism was still there.
Spencer,
I finished both books. You were right, Ficciones was a real challenge, but fun. I enjoyed the complexity. It was very you.
She paused, deleting the last sentence. 'Very you?' she mumbled to herself in irritation. She changed directions.
Spencer,
Hope you're well. I'm sorry about the other day, I was
Her fingers hesitated again, pressing on the delete button. She was – what? Struggling not to feel connected to him?
It was a little ironic, she thought. All her relationships had chipped away slowly due to her work dedication. Their relationship was slowly chipping away at her work. She couldn't seem to find a normal balance.
Harper thought back to the other day, remembering her accidental run-in with two people during the same visit. It had been nice to see Nate. He was charming and easy to talk to. She wondered if he thought she had changed since Harvard.
She definitely thought she had. The quiet and reserved girl, who was frightened to speak in class, had gone. Now, Harper loved conversation; she loved to provoke and probe people into genuine stories. She checked her watch, Nate had asked her to meet for a quick catch-up in the park near her apartment.
She closed her emails.
Spencer, sitting amongst his team at the conference table, felt unusually distracted. His mind was elsewhere, holding his pen against his lips and looking off to the distance. He kept replaying yesterday, seeing Harper at the coffee shop.
