A hint of sadness touched Grace's face. “I hope this isn’t the last we see of each other.”
Her meaning was clear, but Sylvia just smiled. “I should go. You get back to class.”
The students inside saw her suitcase and knew she was leaving. They crowded at the windows, calling out their goodbyes. “Miss
Sylvia!”
“Are youing back?”
“We'll miss you!”
Sylvia waved to them with a smile. “Study hard, all of you. Ande to | City for college.”
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtThe children waved back, their faces full of reluctance to see her go.
Sylvia hated goodbyes, so she didn’t linger. She urged Grace to return to her class and then headed for the parking lot.
She placed her suitcase in the trunk and drove away from the manor.
Gabriel went upstairs to the small storage room and sank to the floor, leaning his tall fragainst the wall as he stared out at the
gray, overcast sky.
After a long time, he took out his phone and dialed a number.
When the call connected, his voice was low and heavy.
“Sylvia, are you getting revenge on me?”
All this time, her indecision, her pain, her push and pull—it was all an act for his benefit.
It was the first the had ever used her full name, and the word instantly created a chasm between them. All the intimacy, all
the affection, vanished like mist in the wind, leaving nothing but a cold, empty void.
Sylvia was driving, holding the phone with one hand while the other gripped the steering wheel. She blinked once, her voice calm.
“] don’t know what you're talking about, Mr. Carnes.”
“You calculated everything,” he said, his voice dark. “But did you ever calculate what was in your own heart?”
Her voice remained perfectly steady. “Didn't you make it clear to me, Gab, that a special agent can’t have a heart?”
“Then tell me,” he pressed, “of all the things you said to me, which ones were true?”
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