people wanted and negotiating from there.
But I could not negotiate Cassandra back into trust.
I could not purchase Luke’s memories.
I could not acquire Violet’s childhood.
Martin looked at the letters.
“What are those?”
“Proof that sometimes efficiency is just a sophisticated way of not paying attention.”
He didn’t understand.
Not yet.
Neither did I fully.
After the meeting, my driver took me to a hotel downtown.
I should have slept.
Instead I read every letter.
The second had been written after Cassandra’s first trimester.
She described hearing two
