Chapter 56 - Mark

Jack tilts his head and stares at me for a moment.

“Are you sure?”

I sigh and lean back in my chair. “Yeah, I’m sure. She won’t go away any other way. Show her in.”

He pauses and furrows his eyebrows.

The room falls silent.

An uneasiness gnaws at me, but I ignore it.

I raise my eyebrows and motion my head towards the door. “Show her in. I might as well get this over with right now. If I refuse, she will only come back another day.” And probably never leave.

Jack stares at me for a few more moments before he shakes his head and turns around. As he walks out of the door, he mumbles something, but I can’t hear what he says. Is there something he forgot to tell me?

Moments later, a flurry of footsteps rush towards my office.

I take a deep breath. This is it.

My fingers wrap around the chair’s armrests while I mentally chant, “This will be the last time you have to see her. You can do it.”

Not that I don’t want to tell her to stick it where the sun doesn’t shine, but her f