{ADAM}

I check my watch, it’s already 8:43 pm.

Maybe she just gave up. Maybe she really isn’t coming.

The damn thought sits in my gut like a heavy stone.

I look over at her silver laptop, sitting right there on the wooden table where I left it for her.

If she doesn’t show up tonight, I’ll have Six send it back to her first thing in the morning.

I can’t hold it for a whole week, no matter what I threatened; she needs it for her work, and starving her of her own ...