You Lost Us In The Test novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: City Hall
I looked at June through the glass.
I looked at Benedict in his paper gown, waiting, not breathing.
"Is that a job offer?" I said.
"It's the opposite of a job offer."
"Because if you're asking as my director..."
"Deanna."
"Yes," I said. "Yes. For good. With you."
He let out his breath.
A nurse on the other side of the unit gave us a thumbs up.
Benedict went red from the neck up, and I laughed until my stitches hurt.
On the tenth of October I flew back to Pittsburgh with a six-week-old baby in a sling and my brother carrying everything else.
June slept through the whole flight.
Brody didn't. He kept checking she was breathing.
"She's breathing," I said, somewhere over Ireland.
"I know. I just like seeing it."
Benedict was two days behind us. The lab had an audit he couldn't move.
"Don't let them make you cry," he'd said at Heathrow.
"I'm not going to cry."
"Then don't let them make you not cry. Either one. I'll be there Thursday."
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