VERONICA

My eyes trailed over to the cardboard box, inside were a few documents, some paper clips, staplers and a couple of pens. I watched Julian take a spin around the office till his eyes finally landed back on me.

A sigh left his lips, he trailed towards me, ignoring the redness of my eyes reaching for the wine I'd brought earlier and puts the wine in the box. His hand moved to the corner of the box and instinctively, I reached inside and took out the wine and placed it back on the table.

Our eyes meets as he reached for the wine, gently putting it back in the...