Point of View: Elena"Read it to me exactly as written," Alexander said, voice gone flat in the particular way I now recognized as fear wearing his usual armor, phone pressed hard to his ear as we stood in the lobby.Alexander had answered the phone with my hand still curled into his jacket, and whatever Daniel said on the other end drained the color from his face so fast that I gripped the fabric tighter without meaning to, bracing for both of us. The security guard near the front desk glanced our way once and then quickly looked back down at his monitors, the way people always did when they sensed a conversation had turned into something they were not supposed to witness. A long pause followed, Daniel's voice a thin murmur I could not make out, and I watched my husband's jaw tighten and release, tighten and release, like a man absorbing blows he refused to let show on his face in a public lobby."Thank you," he said finally, and hung up."Tell me," I said, before he could decide to
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