"Are you okay, Ms. Barnett? You don't seem your usual self today." Sadie felt a stab of irritation. "I'm fine," she said. "Go see the chief." He nodded and left, leaving Sadie staring moodily into her coffee cup. She supposed she should be flattered that Assistant Professor Justin Ives came to her for advice, but she wasn't. It was time for him to grow up already. He did nothing but bumble into situations where he had no business. She felt irritated and out of patience. “I must get away for a while,” she said. “I’m becoming impossible to live with.” Mr. B, who had been sniffing along the edge of the balcony, came and put his front paws on her knees. He tilted his head as if to ask what in the world was she talking about. “I’m out of sorts, Mr. Bradshaw, and Zack won’t want anything to do with me if I don’t pull myself together. I don’t want anything to do with me, for that matter.” She got up and went back inside, rinsing her cup and leaving it in the sink before going downstairs to open the shop.
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