Chapter 24: The Weight of Two LinesPoint of view: Elowen HartThe office hadn't changed at all; unlike my life, everything there was the same as always: the cold light, the same sepulchral silence... I felt as if the walls were closing in on me.I spent the day as if I were trapped in a nightmare... Filing papers. Drafting emails. Making coffee that made my stomach churn, but it wasn't just about making coffee.His notes kept coming too, each one colder than the last."Shell Henderson's contracts. Change the time of the Tokyo call. The quarterly reports are behind schedule."They were cold, demanding, and unsympathetic orders. Each one felt like a small cut, a reminder that the man who had held me in the darkness was gone. If he had ever truly been there.Livia watched me closely all the time, like a hawk. Her eyes followed me everywhere—to the printer, back from the bathroom, every time I sat down at my desk trying to keep my head up. She was always there, with a smug little smile,
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