The first thing I felt was the rain.
It was cold, hard and unforgiving. It splattered across my cheeks as I pushed through the building’s glass doors, barely able to see straight. One step onto the sidewalk and the downpour swallowed me whole.
It felt almost deserved, like the sky was doing what everyone else was doing. Turning against me. Pushing me out.
I didn’t care that I was soaked in seconds. I didn’t care that my heels slipped on the wet pavement. I just needed to get away, away from the boardroom, away from the red paint on my office window, away from all the accusing eyes that followed me like ghosts.
“Jane!”
Daniel’s voice cut through the storm, but I didn’t turn. My lungs were too tight, too full of shattered pieces to form words.
“Jane, wait!”
His footsteps splashed beh
