TER

an'

n hour earlier than usual becaus

ent in the other branches, but I turned it b

ad checked the time more

t had been five years and Sop

n my hand onto the d

she had disappeared years ago,

e door , my eyes i

yself, the door was not even open

opened slowly and So

either of us s

ng, sir." S

ritated me more t

f she had never once called me 'honey

in my chair. "

ely pulled togethe

s late." I said, wi

r phone. "It's j

are." I sa

e me smile, almost but I didn't

woman who disappea

stack of files, placing them one after another on the table until the sound filled the

nly looki

aid, pushing the files slightly

e but still refused to argue, and that was what used to drive me crazy in the

I added, vo

, good, She still knows how to fo

as still there, sitting he

he regretted it, I'll make her regret it by making her work until she felt it in

looking at her face for too long because if I looked

d at the door."Follow me," I

er to turn, already

d me it felt like the past was coming back again without permission, the day she left, the silence that f

topped in front of the sto

t in, the smell of old paper and dust, I really do not need them done but

at her. "You will arrange

ll, and for a second I expected her to complain, to refuse, to show

ked back at me a

again, "and do not mix anything, if you make

she bent down and l

saw her arms shift slightly under th

fore I could thi

part of the box from her ha

cond and I pulled back immed

flatly, "if you dr

sheonly steadied her

her carry the next box, then the next one, and something in

ain this was necessary. If she had left like

fice, I found my eyes going to

I started to hate the fact that I was