Chapter ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO

"It's quite late aren't you going home?" Brian asked as he entered the room.   "It's late?" Xavier asked his eyes looking to the fancy wall clock on his office window. He saw it was past office hours.   Before he became comfortable with Jessica he had always stayed at the office long past working hours because he had always been a major workaholic as usual.   When it seemed as if they were now getting along he left the office before working hours. But now that they had something that looked like a falling out he did not want to go home to face her.   His assistant and Secretary had now gotten used to going home early. She called Brian to tell him that Xavier was going past working hours that day and something was up.   "The CEO has no closing time" Xavier murmured as he immersed himself in his work not raising his eyes.   "Is something up?" Brian asked.   He knew his friend quite well and it was obvious something was up. Since he came into the office earlier than usual he buried himsel