Eve
The board members filed out slowly, casting worried glances back at me, but I barely registered them. My hand was clamped around the phone, knuckles white, the last sound from Sage—a groan and a thud—looping in my head like a nightmare on repeat.
Mia hovered close, unusually quiet, her earlier coldness replaced with something that looked almost like concern. Ironic, really. The one person who’d made it clear she couldn’t stand Sage was now the only one left in the room with me while I fell apart over him.
“Has he picked?” she asked softly, glancing at my phone.
I shook my head, tears blurring the screen. My eyes stung, and my throat was raw from holding everything in.
“Hey, it’s okay,” Mia whispered, stepping forward and pulling me into a hug I hadn’t expected. Her arms were gentl
