CARL

The phone call came in, disrupting the silence of my office and pulling me out of my thoughts. It was a random number that I didn't pick up at first, after a glimpse at the screen. More often than not, I got spam calls from random people who'd somehow gotten my number on the internet.

I tossed the phone back to the table, facing its head down and trying to concentrate on the heap of files that sat before me. I hadn't been able to concentrate on anything since my last conversation with ...