She was trembling uncontrollably beneath my palms. I could feel the shaking in her bones, the frantic pounding of her heart pounding wildly against her ribs. My eyes scanned her face with a pathological hunger, memorizing every feature I'd missed in my nightmares. Dark circles under her eyes, her lips chapped from the cold, and an expression of utter helplessness that twisted my insides in a way I'd never known.
"Four months..." I whispered, leaning closer, feeling the steam of our breaths mingle in the frigid air. My voice dropped an octave, becoming a hoarse growl. "Four damn months living in limbo, tearing apart my company's board of directors because the only person who knew how to put my world together decided to set her phone on fire and disappear. Why, Gia? Why this pigsty? Why thi
