The Voice

"If you are to look at the quarterly earnings for the year, compared with the earnings of the previous-" The head of finance was talking, but Derek barely heard him. He was zoning in and out his attention on the phone in his pocket. It felt as though if he ignored the device any longer it would burn a hole through his clothes and down to his skin in an effort to get him to listen. It was highly distracting but Derek only had himself to blame.