Chapter 105: A True Friend

Eden's POV:

The rest of the day goes relatively smoothly. I focus on my work, doing my best to avoid the team where I can. It's even worse when I leave our department to run errands. People who I've never spoken to before today are stopping me in the hallways.

Some people ask after my grandma and I have to come up with realistic lies. I can't think of any logical excuse for why my grandma would miss the memorial for my parents. When she comes back to work and hears that everyone thinks she's had a severe case of food poisoning, she's going to kill me. I may have been a bit more graphic in my descriptions than was actually necessary, my mouth running away with itself as I tell them about her 'projectile vomiting.'

I'm restless though, eagerly anticipating the moment when the work day will come to an end so I can go to the hospital to check on my grandma.

I can only hope that Noah isn't planning on working late tonight. After just one day off, I know that there's a massive pile of wo