---> NEXT BLURB: I hope that I can put it out on October 4th, following the every other week rule, but I'm not sure with my busy schedule. Keep an eye out for updates on the series masterlist!
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LEGEND:
+ : a break in the story; a time jump.
italics : a flashback in the story.
++ : a point of view change in the story.
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WARNINGS: Some mild language, and a small incidence of physical assault
WORD COUNT: 10.9k words (!!!)
SONG: A Love Like This by Ben Rector
"No matter how much it hurts, no matter how hard it gets, you gotta keep grinding. And that's how we're gonna win. We're gonna win and anyone that gets in our way? Well, God help them." - Dean Winchester, Supernatural
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The phone rang with a shrill bringggggg!, yanking a sigh from my lips.
Another one.
Another sigh.
Another call.
It's just another normal day for me.
After sliding back on the mask that I so often wear within these walls, I at last leave my office and the phone that tends to keep ringing off the hook. Ignoring it and letting the answering machine take it this time, my heels click-clack on the dark tiled floor, a sound I had long ago become accustomed to.
Yet another sound is that of the hot coffee churning into my mug from the Keurig in the break room, and the splash of the creamer I pour in next.
A sound that I don't think I could ever get used to, nor would I want to become mundane, is that of the breathy giggle trickling out from my open office when I return. He doesn't see me yet, but I see him as I take a page from his book and lean in the doorway to watch him. Steam wafts across my smiling lips before the coffee meets them, my eyes fixed on the back of his tousled curls.
