Chapter 98

Chapter 98

the smile thisappeared.

He sat up slowly, and something hardened behind his eyes that particular stillness that meant I landed somewhere tender without meaning to. The jaw shifted. He set his phone face down on the bed with a deliberate quiet movement

“Are you calling me jobless?”

“That’s not what I said-”

“It’s what you meant.”

I pressed my fingers to my temple. I was too tired for this. Too hollowed out, too sleep deprived still weaning my ex husband’s shirt underneath my blazer like a secret that was going to destroy me. Stave didn’t even seen to ponce ma change, by the way, which was a good thing, I guess?