The Office Between Us
The world had narrowed down to a small, suffocating space of pain and light. Isabelle’s head pounded with a relentless rhythm, her throat felt as if she had swallowed glass, and every muscle in her body ached with a deep, bone-weary fatigue. The light from her tiny bedroom window felt a thousand times too bright, even through her closed eyelids. She was sick. Genuinely, truly sick. It was a physical manifestation of the emotional exhaustion she had been carrying for weeks. The tension, the sleepless nights, and the constant anxiety of her job and her family’s debt had finally broken her.