Evelyn
A performance that causes a jaw drop is worth every second of preparation.
The car was pulling away from my parents street when I caught sight of him through the window, Charlie, standing near the gates of his company building with a man beside him, both of them were mid conversation, and even from this distance I could read the tension in the way he was holding himself, the tight set of his shoulders, the slight forward lean of a man carrying more weight than he was letting anyone see.
I watched him until the car moved past and he disappeared from view, and something warm and deeply satisfying settled in my chest.
Julian noticed, the way Julian always noticed everything without appearing to. "Are you more interested in building your empire right now or in making sure those two
