**Chapter 20: Face to Face**Sora read Melvin's message four times before she showed it to anyone.She was in the sunroom when it arrived, laptop open to a half-finished proposal for Bloom's spring campaign, and she sat with her phone in her lap for a long moment afterward, feeling the strange vertigo of a message that managed to be both perfectly reasonable and deeply unsettling at once. *Things you need to know, about someone close to me, that concern your safety.* Not a plea to reconcile, not quite. Something more urgent underneath the careful phrasing.She showed George first, since he was the one sitting across from her when it came in.He read it twice, his jaw tightening slightly by the second pass. "This isn't him asking for a second chance," he said, handing the phone back. "Or — it might be that too, eventually. But something's shifted. He sounds frightened.""That's what I thought." Sora chewed her lip, staring at the screen. "
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