My Love, My Boss
I pulled it back.
A pen. Not a promotional pen. Not plastic or cheap or branded. Silver, slim, weighted in the particular way of things made to last rather than to be disposable — the kind of pen you used to sign something that mattered. Personal to the point of deliberate. It fit between my fingers without effort, perfectly balanced, cold and quiet in my hand.
No note inside. Nothing written anywhere. Not a word, not an initial, not a signature.
But the message was there anyway, written in the grammar of the object itself, in the fact that someone had gone to the specific trouble of choosing this, of having it delivered here, of wrapping it this way.
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