The Enemy Within

Kaelia

After she left, I just dropped onto the couch, wiped out.

"Do you think it helped?" I asked. "The interview?"

He sat down next to me, pulled me close. "We did the best we could with what we had. Now we wait, see if anyone buys it."

"And if they don’t?"

"Then we handle it. Like always." His arm tightened around me. "Together."

We didn’t talk after that. The whole day pressed down on us, heav