Go Set A Watchman 소설 & 이야기

Nothing urgent, but their delegate’s signature is required in person whenever convenient. The reply arrives the following morning. Pleasant. Prompt. Entirely unsuspecting. Happy to. I’ll come Thursday. Maya reads it twice. Then she does the thing she didn't do the night of the Tuesday. She opens the notebook, turns to a clean page, and writes one line. Not the whole of it, not the awning, not Dex, just the operational truth, in the block letters she keeps for things she cannot afford to soften: THE WATCHER COMES THURSDAY. THIS TIME I SEE HER FIRST.

"I told you before. I remember your heartbeat." For the first time in his long career, Damien Cross felt a sensation he hadn't experienced on an assignment: total uncertainty. And somewhere in the heavy darkness above them, completely unseen by either of them, the lens of a hidden camera quietly focused on the pair. Someone else had been watching all along.

She inhaled and exhaled gradually till her heart jolted once again after hearing a door swung open. She turned and saw Tony standing outside his office but blocking her view was the security guard who had led her into the Chairman’s office, walking towards her from Mr. Wright office. “Miss Udoh, you forgot your wrist watch.” He said in an almost whisper voice, handing her the brown, leather wrist watch. “I didn’t realize it slipped from my hands. Thanks.” She said then collected the wrist watch from him. She watch him head back into the Chairman's office and her gaze fell back on Tony, beholding him in a clear view.

Dad nodded, and a bodyguard slapped that colleague to the ground. "That's impossible!" Dad pulled out a tablet and showed it to everyone. "The person who really caused the mayor to miss the critical treatment window and led to the amputation is Melissa Cross. I have surveillance footage as proof!"

"Is this a wedding gift that you've prepared for me, Callista?" I lacked the courage to look into his eyes, so I nodded demurely. Nathan chuckled softly before extending a hand to me. "Please put it on for me, Callista." I knew that Seth and his friends were watching my every move. Without hesitating, I presented the watch that I had spent a long time picking out at the department store. The moment my cold fingertips made contact with Nathan's warm skin, I could feel a surge of heat passing through me. For some reason, that heat strummed a tender heartstring from within.