Rose POV

After our shared moment, Carol told me about her past at Dante Personnel.

I remembered her interning at a company one summer but I was thirteen at the time, worried about my upcoming year of high school. I didn’t know it was them, and even a while after her confession, I was still surprised.

Carol didn’t look at me as she shared her story. Rather, she stared at our interlocked hands, as if it were providing ...