Rain
The room hadn’t even begun to recover from Nick’s promotion when Evelyn’s voice knifed through the murmurs.
“Wait,” she snapped, her voice low but dangerous, her eyes narrowing on Henry like a lioness eyeing a gazelle with a limp. “There’s more.”
Oh, Lord.
I swear, the way she said it sent a cold shiver down my spine. You know when you just know drama is about to go down and you wanna pretend to be invisible? Yeah — that was me right then. I should’ve melted into my seat, turned into mist, anything.
But no. I was stuck there, pretending to look composed while internally panicking like a cat stuck in a bathtub.
Henry didn’t flinch. He turned a page in the leather-bound folder before him, the crisp whisper of paper unnervingly loud in the thick air.
“Yes,” he answered, calm and s
