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Tobias Blackwood walked ahead in silence, his face dark. Gage Grant trailed behind sheepishly, wearing a T-shirt with a large sticker of Maeve's face, looking embarrassed.
Once inside Gage's office, Tobias locked the door, turned around, and gave Gage a scrutinizing look from head to toe.
Silence lingered for a few seconds.
"What exactly were you thinking?" Tobias asked.
Gage righteously replied, "I was thinking about work!" As he spoke, he walked over to a cabinet, pulled out a brand-new white shirt, unwrapped it, changed out of the T-shirt, crumpled it up, and threw it into the trash can.
"Didn't I remind you that she's a friend of Director Thorne's?"
"What does her friend have to do with me picking up a girl?" Gage sat down on the sofa, pulled out a cigarette from the pack, and lit it up.
As he puffed away, he was reminded of his first encounter with Maeve.
