HC

Two years after losing her husband, YN has rebuilt her life around the one thing she's always been good at: control. VP of Strategy at a firm she helped build from the ground up, she's spent her grief the only way she knows how quietly, competently, alone. Then a new hire joins her team. Twenty-eight, unbothered by hierarchy, and paying closer attention than anyone has in years. Eric notices what nobody else does: that YN's composure isn't rest, it's a held breath. What starts as a professional dynamic becomes something neither of them has language for.. a slow unraveling of a woman who spent eleven good, gentle years never once wondering what she might want if someone finally asked. A story about grief, control, and the parts of ourselves we don't find until someone else goes looking.