KAIRA

He took the report from my hand and I sat down. The office was quieter than it had been in the afternoon, no Tracy, no extra presence filling up the corners of the room.

Just the lamp on his desk and the sound of him settling back into his chair and the very loud fact that it was seven in the evening and I was the only person in this building who was not a professor.

He read through the report without saying anything. I watched him read it because I honestly could not stop watching him. His eyes moved across the page patiencely that suggested he was actually...