On Thin Ice
Co-workers give in to a years-long mutual seduction
They were like figure skaters out on a wintry lake, swirling around, sometimes touching, sometimes apart, but always a pair gradually moving farther and farther from the shore, onto thinner and thinner ice. For more than half a decade, when the ice creaked under them, one or the other would scurry back to thicker, safer ground. Until, on a chilly Friday night, when they plunged into water that was simultaneously frigid an...