Lotus Oden.
I could feel her standing there like a warmth behind me while I worked. She was clumped in the corner of my couch, staring at nothing, obviously bored to tears, as I had told her not to touch anything. But she suffered in silence, so quiet it pained my heart for her. Something was different with her since the meeting. Before, she'd been horribly angry. Now, she looked to be eternally sad.
I attempted to concentrate on my screen. On my work.
I had little to say, either.
Couldn't Nati understand that I didn't want to distrust her, dammit? But my team drew me one way, and she pulled me another. My sense of duty told me to go. She couldn't expect me to throw away years on a whim, not when there was proof of her deceitfulness.
Lila would have known where I was—she was f*****g C
