Kisses Are… I 49A

=She could feel his frown through his voice as he said, “Why are you telling me this now?”

“Because I’ve been thinking about how best to handle it. And I couldn’t come up with anything.” She leaned back in her desk chair. In her studio office, new designs before her but she’d been too angry, still is too angry to concentrate on them. “So clearly I’ve been too lenient, which is why Tanner thinks it’s okay to do such things and Peggy just kept it to herself.” She scoffed. “I came up with a nice solution so he wouldn’t have to apologize to her since he didn’t want to, and now his ridiculous comment” Her hand went up and came down on the desk surface hard. “Sent her down a rabbit hole that ended with him practically insulting her again and her revealing his shameful act. He’s more deserving of his own insinuation of her than she is. And her… lying.” She spat. “She’s lying again! First with the tools she needed and now-“