Chapter 116

Nate

Other days passed and we had come close to closing the case. Finally, we had reached a solution and now it was all downhill, the big work had been done and solved. I had worked hard to get this case closed quickly.

I spent the whole day inside the conference room with small lunch breaks in which Becka kept me company. I admit that I appreciated her company. For that half-hour, I was distracted by that pile of documents in which I found myself perpetually.

Becka and I used to talk about everything together, sometimes we remembered the hottest times when we’d run away from the meetings our parents took us to, and we’d hide to smoke pot.

We never talked about our first experiences together, it wasn’t the kind of memories I wanted to bring up.

Becka used to keep me company even when I was down, and in the last few days it often happened to me because we had extended our stay for a few more days because o