“You’re supposed to be the one satisfying my whims, not the other way round. This wasn’t part of the deal,” Tobias said.

Skylar lowered her head in silence.

Truth be told, she thought she might be pushing her luck with him here.

“Let’s just forget it. It doesn’t matter who’s behind that keyboard, seeing how messed up everything already is.”

Unbeknownst to her, he had already sent the link to the IT department, as he could tell at a glance that the photograph was doctored. He was curious to know who could have done something so sinister and why.

After that, he pulled her into his arms and took in the lightness of her scent. “Try to stay out of trouble, yeah? An old man like myself can’t be running around cleaning up after you.”

 

The young woman looked at him. Her eyes widened at how his tone could have graduated from cold to warm, then affectionate.

She held her head close and nodded quietly.

 

its way to her, whether she wanted it

the shower, Skylar was sprawled out on

leaned over and tucked the girl in, all the while marveling at how she could lull herself to sleep

arm still looked raw, and the iodine

the tincture and rubbed it over her arm with the lightest of

was slow and deliberate while he constantly monitored

out of bed the next day,

been his handiwork, as it seemed improbable that she could

Tobias was still asleep despite it being close to roll call. As Skylar got dressed, she noticed that his

she realized that he was still using

not take him for the nostalgic

with her old phone

on his phone awoke to show notifications for a dozen missed

woman and was single-handedly destroying the life the latter was trying to build

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