Deception
she added with obvious concern as she rushed around her large reception desk toward me.
I steadied myself on a nearby chair my fingers sinking into the fabric. I stood taller, feigning the strength I wanted to possess as the room around me tilted. The polished oak floor was a fast-moving river, flowing beneath my precarious footing. I pulled my hand back. The furnishings were liquid and the walls alive. Rationally, I knew that wasn't true, but their movement both fascinated and terrified me as I took off my sunglasses and blinked away the illusion.
Only seconds later, the wild carousel I'd been riding slowed, the music softening as Natalie's words finally held meaning. "Yes, Natalie. I'm fin
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