fruit with only four hours’ notice.
Ed Sheeran played on shuffle.
Everyone tried very hard to behave as though this were normal.
At 3:15, everything changed again.
At a table on Brandon’s side sat Karen, one of his coworkers.
She had helped close a deal during the previous quarter and was on her second glass of wine.
The conversation with two of Brandon’s college friends drifted toward office gossip.
Then Karen gestured toward Brandon and said, “I can’t believe he actually went through with it.”
One friend frowned.
“What
