All I Could Do for Him

Slowly, I sat up while my body felt heavy and slightly sluggish.

“As in stay the night here?” I asked to make sure that I correctly understood what he meant.

“Yeah, it would solve a lot of problems. We could buy a bed and just put it here,” Ace replied excitedly.

His suggestion made me laugh and the way that Ace seemed so serious about it made me laugh even louder than before. Ace gestured to the empty space where a bed would fit if we decided to go along with his plan.

“I guess no one would question you if you turned one of the meeting rooms into a nap room of sorts…” I said to entertain his idea a little.

“Isn’t that, right? They all know how hard I work late into the night and all that…” Ace said before smiling brightly my way.

I guessed he might be right about that in the very short run. We wouldn’t be caught together going to or leaving his place or mine; however, people in the office would find out about us sooner or later. Ace probably didn’t understand well enough how fas