Chapter 11
Melanie's POV
The office was quiet. I stared at the numbers on my screen, but they’d stopped making sense ten minutes ago. My fingers hovered above the keyboard, frozen and useless. I wasn’t even working. I was just existing silently in that strange fog that made everything else almost nonexistent.
The buzz from my phone snapped me out of it.
I picked it up, and it was a text from Aria. Reluctantly, I clicked the chat, and the first thing that popped up was a screenshot of a post.
Charlotte’s username.
It was a picture of a cup of coffee and a milkshake beside it. No face, just Charlotte’s manicured hand, with the caption, “Needed something sweet ;)”
Why was Aria sending this to me?
I was about to overlook the whole text when I noticed the message underneath.
Isn’t th
