"Would you like to accompany me?" He asked her for the second time, seeing her wasn't replying.
She thought she'd had him wrong.
"Why?" It quickly slipped out of her mouth before passing through her filters. On top of that, it came out so rudely. "I'm sorry, that came out wrong. I mean, why do you want my company?"
"As my wife, it's expected you'd accompany me," he said
No, it's not. But this time she managed to not say it out loud.
"And as it came to my understanding, my new finance manager?"
She held her chin up defensively waiting for him to add something scalding but it didn't come. Weird.
"Okay. I'll have to apply for leave first though,"
He looked at her like she'd grown a second head.
"Were you an heiress? You're the bosses wife now. You can do whatever you want."
"That's not how I roll. I have to follow protocol," she replied
"Look if it makes you any happier, you can work on our trip. It's a business trip after all."
"Fine then. I'll join you."
