Mila began adjusting her own schedules with precision bordering on exaggeration, not because she needed to be efficient, but because she needed not to encounter him, and that difference, though subtle, was felt by body before being organized by mind. She changed route within territory, chose longer paths, accepted extra tasks keeping her occupied when she knew Nolan would be free, and called it discipline, when really it was pure containment, conscious attempt to maintain distance from ...