The Man She Forgot

~Kaelen~

She sat at her desk for a long time after I told her about Leo.

Not moving. Not speaking. Just sitting with whatever she was sitting with, her hands flat on the desk, her eyes on a point somewhere past the screen in front of her. The server room hummed. Outside, Brooklyn had fully woken up — the sounds of the city coming through at a distance, muffled by the walls of the warehouse.

I let