The office was quiet, save for the soft hum of the air conditioner and the occasional clatter of my fingers against the keyboard. But my mind wasn’t at work. It hadn’t been for weeks. Not since she came into the picture.
Cathy.
The name alone was enough to make my blood boil. I didn’t know much about her only what Do Hwan had mentioned in passing. A college student. A human. Someone he had met by chance and couldn’t seem to stop thinking about. He had only brought her up twice, but that was enough. The way his eyes softened when he spoke of her, the way his voice carried a warmth I hadn’t heard in centuries, it was unbearable.
And then I saw her.
She had come to the office once, unannounced, to meet Do Hwan. I had watched from my desk as he greeted her with a smile, his usual cold de
