He Kept Explaining My Job Until His Phone Lit Up

drink he didn’t need.

Ryan asked if Halcyon was hiring interns, which broke the tension enough that Aunt Linda laughed wine through her nose.

Mom asked if I wanted coffee.

Not because she wanted coffee.

Because it was the only normal sentence she could think of.

“Yes,” I said.

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