THE BOSS I HATED TO LOVE
“Go with God, Gabriel.”
Gabriel left in a hurry, dropping a kiss on her forehead and wishing her a good day with that sweet smile she was beginning to think of as home. When the door closed, silence draped the apartment like a veil. Celina sat at the table, grabbed her mug of hot chocolate and opened her laptop as she did every morning. It was her ritual—reply to comments, review yesterday’s work, post chapters, plan the next ones.
While eating a slice of bread with jam, she opened a browser tab to check the news—something she’d been avoiding lately. But curiosity, or maybe some unconscious impulse, won out. And there it was, like a knife to the gut: