Sebastian’s POV.The phone on my desk rang at 2:14 PM.I was staring at the same paragraph of a contract I had been trying to read for twenty minutes. The silence in the office was deafening. Usually, I could hear her typing in the annex. Usually, I could sense her presence.Now, there was just the hum of the air conditioning and the gnawing, sick feeling in my stomach that I had made a mistake sending her away.I picked up the receiver. "Knight.""Mr. Knight?" It was Max, the site foreman at Hudson Yards. His voice was pitched high, breathless. "Sir, you need to come down here. Now."My grip tightened on the phone. "What is it, Max? Did we fail the inspection?""No, sir," Max choked out. "There was... there was a collapse. The loading platform in Sector 4. The hydraulics blew.""Is anyone hurt?" I asked, already standing up, reaching for my jacket."It’s Mrs. Knight, sir."The world stopped. The sound of the city, the hum of the office, the beating of my own heart—it all vanished int
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