FROSTBITE
The rain tasted like copper and regret.
Raven Sterling stood at her seventh-floor window, watching Seattle blur into watercolor grays. The city below felt distant safe, human, deliberately small. She pressed her palm against the glass, and frost bloomed beneath her skin before she could stop it. The window didn't freeze over anymore. She'd learned to control that particular betrayal.
Most days.
Her office was deliberately empty of personality: white walls, abstract art that meant nothing to her, plants that survived neglect the same way she did. The therapist who'd designed it had probably intended the aesthetic to be soothing. Instead, it felt like living inside an unfinished thought.
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