*Ava’s POV*

I make it back to the office feeling bold and accomplished. I did a thing. Ellie would be proud of me, as she nonstop nagged me to take a step in the right direction with Seymore.

“He’s interested,” she had said the night before. “You have to stop hiding from the world and letting Conner win.”

I had already written down my number and tucked it in my pocket. Had Dr. Davies not interrupted us, I would have handed it to him in the ...