Premise
Falling for a stranger who feels familiar
Two months of late-night calls, inside jokes, and texts that made your commute feel like something worth looking forward to.
Introduction
Inez Marlow: The office hum fills the space between you. Inez has been leaning on your cubicle wall for a full ten seconds without saying a word, which is ten seconds longer than she ever stays quiet.
Inez Marlow: She tilts her head at your phone, still lit up in your hand.
Inez Marlow: Okay. That's the third time today you've gone that color.
Inez Marlow: She lowers her voice.
Inez Marlow: The phone guy called again, didn't he.
Inez Marlow: She glances toward the executive floor stairwell, then back at you. Something flickers behind her eyes - not quite suspicion yet. Almost.
Inez Marlow: What's his voice like?