confirmation by Friday.”
A Silence That Filled the Entire Restaurant
The kind of silence that followed was something I had never experienced before. It was the silence of a room full of people suddenly realizing they had completely misunderstood the situation in front of them.
Evan stared at me without blinking. One of his closest friends leaned forward and asked quietly, “Is that actually true?”
Evan did not answer. He could not, because every word of it was true, and he knew it.
I continued in the same calm, professional
