The Space She Left Behind
Renz Cortez wasn't used to silence, not this kind, not the kind that stayed even when the room was full, even when conversations were happening, even when everything looked exactly the way it always had. Because this silence? It followed him. "You're not listening." Adrian's voice cut through the meeting room, calm but pointed. Renz didn't look up from the documents in front of him. "I heard everything." "Then repeat the last thing I said." A pause, too long. Adrian leaned back slightly, unimpressed. "That's what I thought." The others in the room exchanged glances but said nothing, they didn't need to. Everyone could feel it, something was off. Renz closed the file slowly, his jaw tightening just enough to show it. "Reschedule the rest," he said. "Renz—" "I said reschedule it." No
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