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Summary
Distance was easy.
Distance was a bridge made of words, filtered through thousands of miles of encrypted satellite static at three o'clock in the morning.
On the phone, Sherry could pretend she wasn't broken. On the phone, Jake could pretend he was a man who belonged in her clean, safe world.
But reality is loud, massive, and entirely uncompromising.
Returning to Washington D.C., Jake finds Sherry living in an almost barren concrete bunker— a physical manifestation of the trauma left behind by a biometric counterfeit. Paralysed by the weight of what they've survived, they find themselves trapped behind a stuttering grid of awkwardness and fear. It takes a ruined espresso machine, a chaotic showroom floor, and the scent of fresh woodsmoke to fracture the ice. Step by step, Jake fulfills the promises he made over those midnight phone lines, proving that while his hands were built for violence, they can also build a sanctuary.
Series
- Part 3 of Conflicted