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Aileen stood too, but she paused, looking at me, "Gianna, grab the Neural-Network Latency Report?" she said, "The one with the local server maps? We need a hard copy." Nodding, I reached for the folder on the edge of my desk, the report I had spent two hours perfecting between electric shocks.

I froze. I wanted to reach out. I wanted to say her name. My hand actually twitched at my side, my fingers wanting to brush against her shoulder just to see if she was still breathing. I felt the eyes of the other employees on me, and I forced my face to stay blank. I swallowed the apology that was

"I am trying to help you!" "I don't want your help!" she shrieked, her voice breaking, reaching a pitch that made my blood cold, "I don't want your pity scripts or your genius brain looking at me like I’m a broken toy! You want to know the pattern, Raphael? You want the real problem?" She surged f

Underneath the shame and the anger, I realized what I was actually looking at. She was lonely. In a way that was deep and structural. Despite having a mother and a sister, she was all by herself. No one had ever stepped up to tell her the simple truth: it wasn't her fault. The car rolled up the

Had it done just for you, Raph. When is the next hunt? I’m tired of waiting. I looked at the photo. Most men would have felt a surge of heat but as I looked at her, all I saw was noise. She was trying so hard to be provocative, to be sexy, but she looked desperate. I didn't reply. I just hit the