The office floor was alive with the usual morning noise. Phones rang softly. Keyboards clicked. Someone laughed near the coffee machine. She walked through it all with her pulse beating too hard in her ears.
No one here knew what happened last night. No one could see the way her legs trembled slightly beneath the skirt she’d ironed to perfection this morning. But she could still feel him. She could still hear the sound of his voice dragging that single word out of her mouth like it belonged to him.
Daddy.
She tried to drown it out with the clack of her heels on the marble floor, but every step closer to his office made it louder.
When she reached her desk, an email notification popped up on her screen before she even sat down. Two words.
“My office.”
The timestamp made her stomach cl
