Page 4 of Some Saviors Can Break You

Eli

Did you want something?

Elliot

Actually yes

Can you go to my office and grab the files on the

right corner of my desk. I forgot to bring them

home with me and I need them

I'd go and get them myself but Jakey is teething

and I told Susannah to get some rest while she could

I finally got the baby to sleep but he’s passed out

on my chest and I don’t want to risk waking him

by putting him in his crib

Eli

Yeah I can grab them and bring them round

Elliot

Thanks, man

I thought we were home free with the lack of sleep

once Jakey started sleeping through the night

but teething has had him up screaming every

night for the last week

Eli caught the hint of regret in his voice and knew that Elliot was thinking about how he had been deprived of four years of his daughter’s life. He hadn't been around when Bessie was a newborn, when she was teething, or learning to walk, saying her first word, or potty training. Eli couldn’t imagine how he’d feel knowing he had missed out on so much of his child’s life, but he was glad that Elliot and Bessie were together now and that his friend would be there for every other milestone in his daughter’s life.

Eli

I’ll leave them with the doorman so I

don’t disturb the baby by knocking on the

door

Elliot

Thanks

Stopping by Elliot’s office, Eli grabbed the files his friend wanted, then headed down to the ground floor. He had texted his driver to tell him he was ready to go back to the hotel, but when he stepped out into the cold night, he saw that his car wasn't there yet.

As he waited, his attention was drawn to a woman walking out of the alley across the street. She was short, if he had to guess not more than five foot two, but she walked with an air of confidence that made her seem seven feet tall. She was dressed in a pair of jeans that, even from here, he could see hugged a perfect pair of toned legs, and although she wore a coat, he could see that it covered a pair of small but perky breasts. She had long blonde hair that whipped around her face in the wind, and she had her arms wrapped around her middle as though she were cold.

The woman stopped abruptly and then bent down, picking up something he couldn’t see, and that was when he noticed it.

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