The Office Between Us
“I… I came back. I came back to you.”
She just shook her head, the tears still falling. “No,” she said, her voice a low, raw whisper. “You came back to a lie. You came back to a woman who had just had a glimpse of a life she could have had, a life of quiet comfort and profound human connection. You came back to a woman who had just watched that life disappear into the cold, silent night. You came back to a woman who was a frantic, shaking mess of grief, of fear, of a terrifying, impossible hope. You came back to a woman who had just had the last piece of her world taken from her, and you had nothing to say. You had nothing to say. You just… stood there. You just… walked away.”