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The corporate pyramid rose thirty floors above Chicago, gleaming glass and steel that Maya had spent fifteen years climbing. Her office was on level 22—close enough to the top to t...
The palm of her hand still tingled from where he'd pressed the iPhone into it, the device warm from his pocket—or perhaps from his urgency. "Take it," David had whispered, his brea...
The fox appeared at dusk, just as Mitchell was coiling the orange cable around his forearm like a dead snake. He'd spent fifteen years at CableTech, climbing poles and threading wi...
The architectural firm was a pyramid of silent egos, each level crushing those below. Tom stood at his desk, tracing the elevation of a luxury hotel that looked suspiciously like a...
The cat watches me from the windowsill as I stand in the kitchen, staring at a bag of spinach like it holds the answers to questions I'm afraid to ask. Three years since Mark died,...
Elena stood in the breakroom, staring at the forgotten papaya on the counter. It had been there for three days—since Marcus's last day. Someone had carved it into a smiley face, th...
The pool reflected the desert sky like a wounded mirror, its surface broken only by Mara's slow, methodical laps. At forty-two, she'd finally stopped trying to recapture the smooth...
Elena stood at the kitchen counter, mechanically chopping spinach for a salad they wouldn't eat together. The knife's rhythm was hypnotic—chop, gather, chop—while Mark sat in the l...
Marcus sat on the edge of the infinity pool, the warm water lapping against his legs, corporate chatter fading into background noise. He'd been walking through life like a zombie s...
Elena sat by the hotel pool, her oversized hat casting a shadow over her face. She'd come to Cabo alone—Mark's idea of a joke, using their anniversary money for what he called a 's...
The goldfish had been floating belly-up for three days before Marcus finally noticed. "You know," he said, swirling his scotch, not looking at the bowl on his mahogany desk, "they...
The hat sat on the bench, a grey fedora I'd bought on our honeymoon in Seville. Elena hadn't noticed it yet, too busy stretching her calves against the wire fence. We hadn't played...