They'd been working for two hours before the conversation drifted.
It happened the way it had started happening more frequently in their late sessions — the work reaching a natural pause, neither of them immediately filling it with the next item, the specific breathing space of people who had run out of things to avoid and were simply in a room together.
Liam had said something about the TechCorp filing that had made her respond with something only tangentially related to TechCorp, and then he'd responded to that, and somewhere in the middle of it the documents had stopped being the subject and they had.
She was aware of it happening.
Didn't stop it.
