I couldn’t feel my legs anymore.
The office suddenly felt too cold.
Hayes looked at me quietly from across the desk before speaking again.
“Can you please sit?”
My legs still felt strange beneath me.
“I’ll tell you everything.”
Only then did I manage to sit back down slowly.
The chair felt harder than before.
Hayes leaned back slightly and exhaled through his nose before speaking.
“I found out about it a year ago.”
I stared at him without blinking.
“A part of me always knew something was wrong about the day we lost you,” he continued calmly. “But five years ago… after we found you again… I wasn’t thinking clearly.”
His jaw tightened slightly.
“You had already gone through too much. You were trying to heal. We all were.” His fingers tapped lightly against the desk once. “And ho
