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XAVIER
I looked at the long list of things I needed to accomplish and groaned. I wasn’t sure it was ever going to get done. I was already working six or seven days a week, and it felt like zero progress was being made.
I needed to take a step back. I hadn’t done that since we arrived. Six weeks working sixty plus hours was taking a toll on me. Life had been nothing but work and think about Karissa. Since I wasn’t making progress on either front, it was time to regroup.
David and his crew were already gone for the day, so the theater was quiet. Genevieve was finishing up, and she wouldn’t be far behind them. If I was going to take a day off, I needed to talk to her before she left.
“Hey,” I said when I found her packing up her computer behind the old snack counter.
“Hey. I was going
