Did you send it? Nicole starts texting me after I’ve collapsed into the couch, feeling empty. Do you work with Sam now? I have to know!!!!

I consider just throwing my phone on the floor and trying to ignore the world for a few hours, but avoiding other people is my old M-O and making changes the past few months has felt pretty good. Apart from today. God, I’m a mess. I dial Nicole’s number.

”Spill,” she says, and I hear shuffling sounds ...