changed immediately.
The smile disappeared from his face.
He looked down at the papers, then back at Vanessa, and asked her something urgently.
She nodded.
He closed the folder and pulled her into a brief embrace.
It wasn’t a romantic embrace.
At least, it didn’t look like one.
It looked like two people who had received terrible news and were trying to support each other.
That realization confused me even more.
If they were having an affair, why was Vanessa crying? Why did Eliam look frightened when he read those
