He shut the door firmly behind him and left her feeling numb. She stood staring at the door for a long time before she felt a hand on her shoulder. It was Leye. She shrugged his hands off rudely and went to sit at the workstation. For once Tessa wasn’t overflowing with her opinions. Keside felt the weight of their unspoken questions hanging over her. She didn’t owe them an explanation. She owed it to them to fix this. She had a vacuum where her heart was supposed to be because the pieces were shattered all over the place but she would cry over that later.
“What are you two doing standing there?” She asked without looking up. “We have work to do.”
THIRTEEN
“What do you mean he is gone? He wasn’t supposed to travel until next week Monday.”
“I got an email from him this morning. He moved
