Chapter 5

A week before the awards ceremony, someone I never expected showed up.

I was working late at the office when the front desk called me. "Winona, there's a lady downstairs asking for you. She said her name is Sophie Gale."

My hand froze on the keyboard. "Send her up."

Three minutes later, Sophie was standing at the door to my office. She was wearing a white dress, her hair down, and she looked like she'd lost more weight since the last time we met at the hospital.

The second she saw me, she froze. "You're not dead?"

I lounged back…