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I watch it disappear around the corner toward the end of the corridor. Something moves through my chest that I do not have a name for. Fuck, waiting! I'm going in now! I am on my feet and moving before I have fully decided to move.

I kept moving. *** (Adrian) She staggered. I was already moving. Fifteen feet. I crossed it without thinking, without calculating, without doing anything except the one thing I'd been doing since the video arrived on my phone four days ago. Getting to her. She was upright when I reached her. Hand on the door frame. Still moving. I got my arm around her and took the weight she wasn't admitting she'd shifted. "Stay with me." "I'm here," she said.

Praying for… I don’t waste another second. “Move,” I tell the men around me as I grab my jacket. “We’ve got something.” Just like me, they don’t waste time. In seconds they’re moving before I even reach the door.

“But it doesn’t matter what I want. This is business.” At two o’clock exactly, a black car pulled up outside Maya’s building. I’d changed into something presentable. Dark jeans, a silk blouse, the kind of outfit someone touring their future home might wear. The engagement ring felt heavy on my finger. “You’ll be fine,” Maya said, hugging me at the door. “It’s just a tour. You’re not moving yet.” “I know. But it feels like another step toward something I can’t take back.” “Every step feels like that. But you’re still moving forward. That’s what matters.”

I step inside. I’m not ready. But I move anyway. Toward Mia.

Something that assumed I would recognise it My body was already shifting forward in the chair, the instinct to move toward the thing requiring assessment engaging before the conscious decision caught up. She turned Walked. Not fast.... measured. The pace of someone who was going somewhere and expected to be followed. I stood "I'll be back in a moment," I said, to the general direction of Maya and the reception desk simultaneously, neither of which was an adequate explanation but both of which were going to have to suffice. I moved through the waiting room, past the chairs and the water dispenser, into the corridor. The woman was perhaps thirty metres ahead Still the same measured pace. Still

Physical. Immediate. We start moving. Not walking. Moving. The corridor stretches ahead, and every step feels like I’m stepping into something I can’t walk back from. Not after this. Not after him. Not after they see us together. Not after today. I don’t look back. I go with him. Into whatever waits.

“Me too.” As I drifted closer to sleep, one thought lingered clearly in my mind: Nothing about this was rushed. Nothing felt forced. We weren’t running away from anything anymore. We were moving toward something—slowly, intentionally, together.

I’ll die if I don’t. My hand slips under the waistband of my joggers, and inside my panties. I find my clit and bite my lip against a groan of relief, but the relief doesn’t last long. My fingers move in a familiar, circular motion over the bundle of nerves, my breathing picking up, my body tensing.

Then I hear it…. “Is that Marcella?” “Who’s that guy?” “Wait… isn’t she dating Lucas?” My name. That’s when something cold slides down my spine. My heart stutters. Then starts pounding….harder, faster, heavier. A sudden rush of adrenaline hits me, sharp and disorienting. I don’t think, I just move. I push forward without thinking, my shoulders brushing past people, irritation rising with every step. “Move,” I mutter, low and tight, forcing my way through the small crowd.