Harrison POV
The drive back to the office was a disturbing one with jumbled thoughts running through my mind. It suddenly felt longer than usual, like the city streets had stretched and twisted into something unfamiliar. I tried to shake it off, focusing on the meeting ahead, on the flood of emails waiting, the meetings scheduled back-to-back with my investors, but none of it could hold my attention. My thoughts kept drifting back to the playground, to that little girl with brown hair catching the light like spun gold.
Lily. Her name replayed over and over in my mind, like the hook of a song I couldn’t get out of my head. I couldn’t get the picture of her face off my head. She couldn’t have been more than six or seven, yet the way she’d looked up at me, her innocent smile as bright as th
