Lingering Doubts

Kaelen

Afternoon light spilled across the desk where a stack of territory reports sat untouched beneath my hands.

"You've been staring at that same page for ten minutes, son. How are you holding up?"

I blinked, pulling my gaze away from the spreadsheets I hadn't actually been reading, and met my father's sharp, observant eyes. Pushing the pack files aside—numbers I already knew backward and for