Right By His Side

“I have to admit that I never thought things would turn out like this when he called you over to help him,” Richard confessed to me softly.

I looked up from my computer screen to see him looking at me with passive eyes. Life had returned to normal on the surface, at least for me. Working in the office with my team on my project with Richard became the expected norm; however, that wasn’t all that I had to handle.

“Yeah…it’s still very surprising for everyone…I think…” I replied before forcing myself to smile.

“Hang in there. Don’t worry too much about this project,” he said while sounding quite bored.