Chapter 50: Closing Time

The Hartwell anniversary party fell on a Thursday in April, exactly one year to the week since the pitch that had, in its own strange way, started all of it — the crisis that had forced Mia and Nate onto the same team, the first real kiss, the beginning of everything that followed. The agency threw it properly, the whole floor cleared out for the evening, string lights over the open-plan space, a...