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Stressed.

Very stressed.

I added one more item to my list.

Everyone else

Because literally everyone hated Steven.

Another glance at the clock followed.

10:11

A text message flashed at the top of my screen. None of us were technically allowed to connect our personal phones with our computers, but everyone did it. Even me, and I was the biggest stickler for rules in our office.

Our top tech guy had even created a program or something to prevent our personal messages from being recorded or tracked by whatever system the company used. The shit he’d texted me about Steven over the years was enough proof to me that his hack worked.

Harper

What number am I on your list?

You’d better have put me above you

Me

5

Harper

Are you kidding?

Me

Your arguments with Steven aren’t that bad, you just assert yourself strongly

Harper

Tell me you didn’t put yourself at the top

Me

Everyone else will, so anything else would be suspicious

Harper

BLOOM.

Not putting yourself at the top of a murder suspect list is EXPECTED

Me

But putting yourself at the top is basically a statement that you’re comfortable with the knowledge that you didn’t do it

Which I am