Chapter 25

Sarah

Another sleepless night. It wasn't difficult to decide to take a pill and lie down waiting for the drug to knock me out. But the pill did not give me a night's rest.

Simon didn't call me because of David. If anything happened, Simon went to look for him. David is taking a big risk and playing with a sense of morality that Simon doesn't have. As hard as it may seem, he would kill his son, and that wouldn't come as a surprise to me.

No, he arrived only six weeks ago. Simon won't give up so quickly on turning him into someone useful to him. Some copy of himself.

These last few days, I have not seen David's interest in me. It seems he is finally moving on with his life, on a path separate from mine.

It hurts. How I wish everything were different, but it's better this way.

Sitting at my desk, I try to focus on what I have in front of me, but today, my most important job wasn't here.

I hate what I have to do and myself for doing it.

My stomach turns just knowing that the man I have