REBECCA’S POV
I waited five days after the first move before I made the second one.
Not because I was afraid. Because I had learned, from Olivia, from Marcus, from the education of watching Edmund operate across five years of marriage, that the space between actions was as important as the actions themselves. Rush two moves together and they read as connected. Space them correctly and they read as weather. Separate systems behaving independently. The kind of thing that produces a headache in an operations report and nothing more.
Five days.
I counted them the way you count something you are trying not to count, pretending you aren’t, going about the ordinary business of the week, making dinner and attending to the brand and having the kind of telephone conversation with Daniel that h
