Chapter 13 · free to read
Day twenty-six. Four days of public distance, and the two people who had finished each other's sentences at midnight could not get through nine slides.
'Integration risk: the principals have stopped speaking.' She struck it out because it was not true, and the true version was not a thing she could file.
Two people who negotiate for a living, three feet apart, unable to negotiate one honest sentence between them.
Neither of them said the word. Both of them heard it. It was, for the moment, enough.
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