CXVI

Kieran looked up from his desk to see Arabella working so intently on whatever it was that she was doing. He glanced at the clock on his desk. It was lunchtime so why was not eating?

He stood up and took up the lunch box his mom had packed for him. He would heat the meal in the kitchenette and also try to invite Arabella to do so.

"If you had the opportunity, you would be a workaholic" Kieran said.

"Shit," Arabella said whipping around on her seat to Kieran with a shock on his face, her hand on his chest and her face as if she had just encountered a ghost.

"What?" he asked taking cautious steps down from his office stairs to the main floor.

"You scared me" she responded. She had decided to invest herself into the work that she had forgotten that she was left all alone with him in the office.

"Aren't you going to have lunch?" he asked and she nodded.

"You brought lunch from Everly for me, remember?"

"I do remember, I just wanted to know the reason why you are yet to have it" he asked