The Perfect Wife Walked Away
The overhead lights were off, replaced by the multicolored glow of LED strips taped to the edges of the desks.
Noelle was sitting in an ergonomic chair that looked like it had been salvaged from a spaceship. She was small — barely five-foot-two — with short black hair that stuck up in odd angles, as if she'd cut it herself with kitchen scissors. She was wearing an oversized hoodie with a cartoon cat on it, leggings, and fuzzy slippers. Her glasses, thick-rimmed and slightly too big for her face, were perched on the tip of her nose.
When she saw me, she spun around in her chair, and her face broke into a grin so wide it looked almost painful.