Grace collapsed onto the floor. Her lips moved. "It's over. It's all over."
Hugo's face was a sheet of white paper. He stumbled backward and crashed into a folding chair behind him.
"Grace, save me. They can't take me away. I have depression. I won't make it through this."
"Then just die. Aren't you the one saying every day that you don't want to live anymore? Go ahead. Die. Let me see it."
Hugo stared at her in utter disbelief. He turned and ran for the door, tears streaming down his face.
The officers who had just arrived blocked his path.
"Hugo Janning, you are suspected of deliberately destroying someone else's academic work and tampering with a computer system. You'll need to come with us and cooperate with the investigation."
"Don't take me. No. Somebody help me. Grace, help m
