He didn’t say much, which wasn’t anything unusual, but his facial expression said it all. “He didn’t mean to do it, boss. I think he being new and all…we can just fix it, right?” She didn’t say anything. New meant Robert and as much as she wanted to avoid the man altogether, she had to go and see what she could fix. If she could. The break room in the office building that she was led to didn’t look all that bad at first glance. Then she saw what was going on. The floor was to be tiled in white. No other colors were in the room, white walls, white counters and even white appliances, she’d been told. But there was a blue ribbon of tile all the way around the room a foot from any wall and six inches wide. And there in the corner about five feet from finishing was Robert. “Fuck.” She looked around the big room and tried to think. She and Alexander had stayed up much too late talking last night. She hadn’t even gone to bed when he’d left her house at three-thirty.
