CHAPTER 41 — THE TEA INCIDENT

Naomi's POVThe proposal was going well.That was the thing I kept coming back to afterward. The proposal was genuinely going well. I had been working on it for four days, a comprehensive restructuring of the Foundation's medical outreach funding model that incorporated the pharmaceutical intervention data and the clinic expansion targets and a new patient outcome framework that Dr. Osei and I had developed together over two very productive afternoons. It was the best sustained piece of work I had done since arriving in this house and I was at the part where the argument was coming together cleanly and the sections were fitting the way they needed to fit and I was not thinking about anything except the proposal.This is relevant because it explains why I took the sip without thinking.---The Foundation office on the second floor had become my room within the room over the past few weeks. Not an official designation, simply a gradual claim. The desk faced the window. The files were in

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Chapter 2: Someone Else's Sister

Elena's POV Priya let herself in the next afternoon, exactly the way she always did — no knock, no warning, just the click of a key in the lock and the door swinging open like the apartment belonged to her as much as it belonged to me. "Auntie Priya!" Sophie went tearing across the living room and latched onto her legs. "There's my favorite person in the whole world," Priya said, scooping her up with the ease of someone who'd been doing it since Sophie was born. Then, over the top of Sophie's head, to me: "Danny told me you found out about the tattoo." She set Sophie down and yanked the collar of her blouse aside to show me a small, tasteful outline of a swallow inked just below her collarbone. "See? Not exactly scandalous. Mom would still have an actual stroke, though, if she knew." I laughed, and it was a real laugh, because — okay, fine. It was exactly the kind of secret Priya would keep from their mother. Exactly the kind of thing Daniel would help her hide, the way he'd

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CHAPTER 41 — THE TEA INCIDENT

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