I Logged In As The CEO's Mother And Crushed His Favorite Girl novel · Chapter 20 of 24

Chapter 20: Front Row

Ellis's smile didn't go away all at once.

It went slowly.

"Not staying," he said. "In the marriage?"

"In Chicago. Anywhere here." Holly's hands slid off his face. "In April, when the job's done, I go home. And home's somewhere you can't come."

"Where?"

"I can't explain it. I'm sorry. I would if I could."

The crew had gone quiet around us. Twenty people in the mud pretending to look at the river.

Ellis looked past her, up the slope, at me.

He held my eyes for a long moment.

"Her too," he said. It wasn't a question.

Holly didn't answer.

He nodded slowly.

Then he picked her hard hat up out of the mud, wiped it on his jeans and put it back on her head.

"Okay," he said. "Then I've got till April."

That night I asked the system.

I sat on the edge of the bed with the lamp off and said it out loud.

"What happens to them when we go?"

It took a while to answer.

THE BOOK CONTINUES. THE ROLES REMAIN. MEMORY OF THE TERM IS RETAINED BY THE ROLE.

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