The next day dragged on endlessly for Katherine, a haze of nausea and fatigue that clung to her like a second skin. Vincent had been swallowed whole by his work demands, back-to-back meetings, urgent calls from the office that pulled him away from his phone from dawn until dusk. Texts were sporadic at best, a quick ‘Miss you, baby. Busy day ahead' in the morning, nothing more until the evening. Katherine tried to push through her own routine, but her body rebelled. Waves of queasiness rolled through her stomach at odd intervals, leaving her pale and clammy, her head pounding with a dull ache she couldn't shake. She attributed it to the jet lag from their Seychelles paradise or maybe something she ate, but deep down, a nagging uncertainty gnawed at her. “Why did everything smell so sharp, so overwhelming?”She spent the day curled up in her bed, sipping ginger tea that did little to settle her, staring at her phone willing it to ring, missing the heat
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