❛ that’s social services’ job, not ours. our job is t’ make sure we can get that tumor out in time, & if you’re in her corner –––––––– then act like it. ❜
his decision is evident in the way tense jaw relaxes, the way hands fall from his hips to his sides, the way begrudging gaze drifts away from his superior’s countenance in favor of whatever is over his shoulder for only a moment; he has CONCEDED. ❛ when’s the surgery scheduled? ❜