Pushing the door to her department, Avery walked in and lowered herself into the chair.She picked her phone from the desk, glancing at Marcus's last message. She had wanted to tell Nathaniel about it, but there hadn’t been enough time to bring it up in Miss Graham’s office.Avery read the message again, then locked her phone and set it aside.For a moment, her fingers lingered briefly against the desk before she drew her hand back, brushing it off as just Marcus being Marcus. Maybe he was just in the mood to go out, or maybe he’d finally decided to stop being so random about things for once. Either way, it wasn’t a big deal.Avery turned back to her laptop and pulled up her work again, even though she couldn’t fully focus.By the time she looked up again, the office had gone noticeably quieter. The sun outside the window had already dipped below the horizon.People were packing up now, drifting out one after the other—chairs scraping softly, bags being slung over shoulders, and goodb
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