He was alone, which was more than I expected and that in itself was an aphrodisiac for me.‘New dress?’ were the first words he utters, but there w...s no appreciative tone in his voice.‘Yes it is darling, I thought you’d like it’ Hating myself I knew that I was so eager to please him I sounded like a c***d, but the sheer fact he noticed it was new made me love him even more.Curling his lip and shifting forward in his chair he spits out, ‘Well I don’t. It looks cheap and tacky’His words sting and. And that was on the first few pages.His explanation made sense when he explained it for us laymen. The architects were paid by percentage on the total cost of the project including cost over runs. The builder was awarded the job based on low bid. Any changes to the building plans after the project was awarded was considered an exception and billed at a premium rate, sometimes 300 percent above the bid rate.To make matters worse any materials ordered for that grid of the project simply. The black girl easily prizes the leather satchel from my nerveless fingers, but she puts it down a few feet away quite gently and I feel a ludicrous pang of gratitude when none of you seem to take any further interest in it – recovering from bruises would be a small matter compared to losing all my course notes. Now your two accomplices take my upper arms and hold me against the wall, standing at either side of me and smiling with eager anticipation. But there is no doubt that you are the. The right corner of his mouth twitched upwards. He was enjoying this! It was so infuriating. I was extremely stressed out, mustering all my internal strength to simply not cry and he was fantasizing about chasing me around the office with a ruler to measure the length of my skirts. I promised Nate, again, to be extremely conscious of my clothing, thanked them both, and dismissed myself. I grabbed my purse and took and early, unannounced lunch. I needed to clear my head.When I returned it was to.