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Nicholas Boothman
Gina’s eyebrows rose. "Everything okay?"
He paused. The old Henry would have said, “Fine, just time for a change.” The new Henry, the one who'd made his decision three hours ago, couldn't summon the energy for the performance.
"No," he said. "Nothing's okay. But I'm trying to fix that."
He pushed through the revolving doors into the autumn air. For a moment the street felt out of sync.
A taxi hung too long at the intersection. A man mid-step didn’t land when he should have.
Then everything snapped back into motion.
Henry blinked.
Stress, he told himself. Nothing more.
He started walking. He didn't know where he was going. Away was enough.
His phone buzzed. His sister Claire. He stared at her name on the screen, his thumb hovering over the decline button. They hadn't spoken in two years, not since Thanksgiving when she'd called him a "professional liar,” and he'd responded by calling her "self-righteous and unemployed." The fight had been ugly. The silence since, worse.
He let it go to voicemail.
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