TWENTY-NINE II

In the meeting, Stefan was obviously inattentive but no one said anything about it. They all trusted Tristan to keep the minutes of this meeting for their chairman to review later. Still, it didn't stop the employees to gossip about his mood. 

"Did the chairman fight with his wife?" 

"Isn't it his birthday today? How come they're fighting?" 

"Normally, the madam would post her greeting in her account but I didn't find anything today." 

"They must have fought." 

The culprit of making Stefan sad on his birthday was busy answering her exam. She didn't lie about taking an exam today but she lied about the time. Thankfully, they didn't have classes in the afternoon today because their professors had to leave for a meeting. They didn't know what that meeting would be and it didn't matter to her. What was important was that she didn't have to be absent again.