Kate's POV
Christmas will be okay. Christmas will be okay.
Christmas Eve is a disaster.
Cliff is throwing a company party, putting on a brave face to tell the competition that the company isn’t going under. I know it’s hard for him—he feels that it’s classless and distasteful, in the wake of their deaths. But he pulls through; he always does.
The first disaster is Alex’s announcement: she’s leaving the day after Christmas.
“I know what I said before,” she tells us as we sit at a table in the building’s lobby, “but I applied for a job on campus, and the one I got starts in two days. Beggars can’t be choosers, so I accepted.”
No one seems to know what to say.
“I need a drink,” Brooke finally says, and disappears.
Twenty minutes later, she’s being hit on by a television star.
I can
