Chapter 23 —The Final Mask

• Emily's POV
• Two weeks and I was still showing up to work like everything was fine.
• That was the thing about heartbreak that nobody warned you about, not the dramatic kind where you could not get out of bed, but the functional kind, the one that let you answer emails and sit through meetings and smile at colleagues while something underneath all of it stayed quietly broken. I was good at the functional kind by now. I had practice.