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waved back at her without saying another word. I was s till trying to figure-out what was going on, if there was anything at all.
    “ Wow,” she said. “I wouldn’t believe it if I didn’t see it with my own eyes. You actually hired a woman and put her in a position so she could do some real work.”
    “ Alice is intelligent and hard-working,” Rafael explained to her. “She’s done a lot for me already but I know that she hasn’t tapped her potential yet. She’s the future of the company.”
    “ And she’s beautiful, too. It’s nice to know that your taste is improving.”
    “ My taste isn’t improving. It’s always been good.”
    “ Let’s just agree that it’s not getting any worse.”
    The two of them laughed with one another. The way they interacted was just as friendly as it was with Harold, if not more so. I turned my attention to my dinner to a void staring at the two of them. I didn’t know what I was feeling but I was doing everything I could to ignore it.
    “ So, tell me, something,” she said. “All of you. What’s it like working for a man like Rafael, hmm?”
    “ I can’t complain,” Wesley shrugged. “The guy seems like he knows what he’s doing. Hey, if you bring me out to Hawaii, I’ll work as hard as you need me to.”
    Cheryl laughed at his response. Rafael nodded his head while he enjoyed his food.
    “And you?” she asked Travis.
    “ Rafael does have some unorthodox methods,” Travis said. “But nothing that I can disagree with. He seems to be running his company just fine.”
    “ But how is he as a boss?”
    “ He gets the job done. He does what’s appropriate for a company that’s worth as much as it is.”
    “ I see,” she nodded. “And how about you, Alice? How is Rafael treating you?”
    I shifted my eyes up from my food and looked back at her. Her eyes were wide with curiosity. There was a smile at the corner of her mouth as she waited for my response. I glanced over at Rafael and he stared at me for just a second before shoving more food through the smile on his face.
    “ Alice?” she asked me.
    “… Um, he’s great,” I said, trying my best not to say the wrong thing. “He’s… a great boss. I couldn’t ask for anything more.”
    “ A great boss,” she nodded. “Yeah, I wouldn’t expect anything less.”
    The two of them looked at one another and smiled. I felt just as curious as I did moments ago. I had a lot of questions that I wanted to ask the both of them but I knew that now was definitely not the time. Instead, I looked at my dinner and distracted myself with my food.
    Even though I was sitting at the table, I suddenly felt alone. Travis and Wesley listened intently to the stories that Harold was telling them but I had trouble paying attenti on. Rafael and Cheryl spoke to one another like friends who hadn’t seen each other in ages. They laughed and joked while I sat across from the two of them and watched. She would playfully feed him some of the food on her fork then wiped the mess she made on his face with her napkin.
    I knew better but I couldn ’t help myself. The entire picture in front of me was upsetting me. I was chewing so hard on my food and grinding my teeth that my head was starting to throb.
    They ’re just friends. So what? What does it matter, anyway? It’s not like he’s your boyfriend. This doesn’t change your relationship with him.
    I tried to reason with myself. I was reading too much into every little interaction they were making. Every time I was convinced that there was nothing betw een them, I had to tell myself that I shouldn’t even care in the first place.
    I spent the entire time cleaning my plate with disdain. I could only watch Cheryl feed Rafael his dessert for so long. It felt like an eternity before dinner finally ended. Thank fully, it was over.
    “ The conference starts in the afternoon tomorrow,” Rafael said to Wesley, Travis and me. “There are a few workshops that I want you guys to