( note : this chapter is not a continuation of the previous two chapters...this one is focused on the present and told from a third person's pov)
The knock came just after sunset.
Raina barely looked up from the untouched glass of wine sitting beside her laptop. Beyond the tall windows of her Opalvine apartment, the city glowed beneath the evening sky, soft gold lights bleeding into the dark.
Another knock echoed through the apartment.
Yuki appeared from the hallway. "I'll get it."
Raina nodded absentmindedly, pretending to focus on the email open on her screen.
Pretending.
Because her thoughts had been circling the same thing for hours now.
Susan.
Ethan's office.
The way she smiled.
The way Ethan looked caught off guard.
The way Susan had said: "Really close."
A bitter feeling twisted beneath Raina's ribs again.
She hated it.
Jealousy was ugly.
And yet it refused to leave.
Downstairs, the front door opened.
Voices followed.
A woman's voice.
