One week before everything became complicated, far from his assistant’s watchful eyes, he spent nearly an hour reflecting on his life outside the company. Truthfully, he didn’t have much of a love life, aside from a few casual encounters with people he had met along the way.

None of his relationships had ever lasted very long. The longest one had barely reached five months, which was already saying quite a lot. Honestly, he didn’t consider himself cold or emotionally distant. When he was with so