I should be at work right now ! Heck , it wasn' t an option . I needed to be at the firm right now . Ellie should have been briefing about my day ahead and Daniel would have been filling me in on the new clients he had started handling . That is how I ached for my morning to be but it was most contradictory to the reality of how my morning was actually going . She shouldn' t be here . . and by here I meant New York . Each time she popped back , be it for a day or a week or , on rare occasions , an entire month , It made me realise how on edge I had become . It was like my brain had sent signals to my body to be on high alert with my own mother . It was for good reason , of course . My mother was not the most stable person for as long as I could remember . She thrived on instability and