Ford’s POV
Work is the only place where I can breathe now.
Even then, it’s not a sanctuary, because Livia will come and work later in the afternoon and I have to hold it in tighter than ever.
But it’s not because she’s suffocating me. It’s because I know that once I start breathing in, I would need more.
Just more of her.
Until she’s completely consumed.
It’s my lunch break right now, and things are going good so far. My backlog of patients is finally thinning.
I’m sitting down and eating, doing paperwork at the same time. All of a sudden, my phone starts ringing.
It’s Nadine.
Strange. She usually doesn’t call. She also hates it when I call.
But I answer anyway. “Hey, Nadine. Did you press call by mistake?”
She laughs. “No. I was going to talk to you. Are you busy though?”
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