Chapter 45
SOPHIA
I noticed it building in him over several days, the particular restless energy of a man who couldn't let a question go, snapping at Priya over small things at the office, according to the gossip that always found its way back to me, distracted through half our conversations, his eyes going distant in the middle of sentences like some other thought kept pulling him under. There was something wrong somewhere, I just knew it.
I recognized it because I'd spent years learning to read every shift in Daniel's moods, every flicker of attention, every place his focus wandered when he thought no one was tracking it closely enough to notice.
He was obsessing over Nora and it was beginning to become a problem, because this kind of obsession was different. Not the careful, busine
