Chapter 98: The Heartbeat
Evaline:
I let out a deep sigh and stood up to stretch my body.
It was Sunday and River was absent again.
Not that I was surprised.
He hadn’t shown his face since the weekend warriors went missing, and every time I came in for work, it felt like walking into a fog that refused to lift. The assignments he gave me through his secretary were straightforward and dry - sorting documents, updating reports, rewriting summaries.
There was no mentions of classified cases. No warriors. Just paper and silence.
Though I did spent last night pondering on the matter, I eventually decided to put away the matter as it had nothing to do with me.
By four in the afternoon, I was done with my work. It wasn’t that I was rushing, I just worked faster when I wanted to be somewhere else.
And today, I did want to be somewhere else.
I grabbed my bag and headed downstairs, finding the familiar black SUV in the parking just as it had been every weekend for the past month.
Kieran’s man had been taking me to and from the Council headquarters for weeks now, even after I insisted I could just take the bus.