She walked out, I heard the door pull shut behind me. But no click? The latch hadn’t caught. The door then opened a little and I could see the whole...loungeroom again. This time Kayla and her man were up dancing. He had taken off his jacket and was simply in a polo shirt and ¾ pants. They danced slowly together, moving back and forth. I heard Kayla say from where I was, ‘Dani’s getting bored.’ Of course this didn’t worry me. What did, what tore my heart from my chest came a moment later. The. Next up, was lunch, so I met my girl at our usual table. She saw me favoring my arm.“What’s wrong, Michael?”“I had a quick pain during orchestra. I finished the number, but it hurt.” I told her about the nurse. She chastised me a bit, deservedly so.“Have you been getting questions all day about auditions?” I asked her.“Yeah, I was asked how many songs I was going to sing? It was strange the way they were asked, by other girls.”“Did you answer their questions?” I asked.“I said that I would get. She can’t see the color of his face change to red when she continues. “Is she there with you now?”“Not exactly,” he answers, taking a calming breath. “She’s just outside my office. Apparently she is a new hire and has been assigned to my team as my personal assistant.”“I knew she was getting a job at some big firm, I just didn’t know it was going to be yours,” Lucy begins to explain. “She knows I’m seeing someone, but she doesn’t know it’s you yet. Can you wait to say something until after. Fred was at first surprised at his son's liaison with Mrs. Therrien, but the more he thought about it, the less inclined he was to interfere. He chose not to burden Violet with the discovery. It would only cause her to worry about Bill and fret about the possible damage to his reputation. Their son was a man now and he was entitled to have a relationship with whomever he chose, providing it did not hurt anyone else. In this case, her husband had abandoned her, leaving her free to pursue her own.