Chapter 34
Graham's POV
The construction site was chaos.
Metal screaming, men shouting over each other.
Dust stung my eyes, my helmet weighed a ton. I still couldn’t hear my own thoughts.
I wasn’t here. Not really.
My mind was in another city.
Another office.
Another life.
With Janessa.
My phone buzzed in my pocket. I checked again. No reply from her.
Three weeks of good. Then three days of nothing- no ‘busy,’ no voice note, no midnight ramble she always forgot to finish.
“Just busy,” I told myself. “She’s handling her business.”
Still, worry coiled tight in my chest.
The last time we spoke, she sounded… tired. Unlike herself. And I wasn’t there to hold her, to support her, to ease her like I always did.
My phone buzzed again. For a stupid second, I thought it was her.
