Chapter 104

• "She haunts every breath I take—alive in my dreams, gone in my reality. And somewhere in between, I’m losing pieces of myself trying to find her."
• RUBEN
• The office was too quiet. I sat there, unmoving, my fingers clenched into fists on the desk. Papers lay scattered, but I couldn’t read them—my eyes kept drifting to the window. Clouds had started rolling in. Thick, white clouds slipped through the open windows like mist from another world. They swallowed the walls, blurred the lights, and softened everything.