{"content":[{"text":"self-defense.\"","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.091044,"width":0.10757299999999999,"height":0.016779000000000002}},{"text":"He's right, as usual.","bbox":{"left":0.176503,"top":0.125917,"width":0.15305899999999997,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"I close my eyes, feeling more exhausted than when I crawled into","bbox":{"left":0.33969,"top":0.125917,"width":0.5136669999999999,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"bed three hours ago. \"I guess I need more time.\"","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.160766,"width":0.377907,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"I examine his face on the screen.","bbox":{"left":0.176503,"top":0.195614,"width":0.256,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"Drew's emerald eyes are alert, his brown, wavy hair","bbox":{"left":0.442631,"top":0.195614,"width":0.406405,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"perfectly placed, and he's in a dark button down shirt.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.230463,"width":0.42002,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"I narrow my eyes at my phone. \"Hey, it's like 5:00 am over there.","bbox":{"left":0.176503,"top":0.265311,"width":0.510922,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"Are you getting an","bbox":{"left":0.697565,"top":0.265311,"width":0.14639199999999997,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"early start?","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.30016,"width":0.08629100000000002,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"Or are you still awake?\"","bbox":{"left":0.21415,"top":0.30016,"width":0.18988699999999997,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"\"Couldn't sleep,\" he admits, trying to mask a yawn with the back of his hand.","bbox":{"left":0.176503,"top":0.335046,"width":0.604755,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"\"So, you've been listening to me sleep?","bbox":{"left":0.176503,"top":0.369895,"width":0.30684,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"Sounds a bit creeper-ish if you ask me.\" Maybe I","bbox":{"left":0.493611,"top":0.369895,"width":0.383416,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"should have the Agency issue me a new set of surveillance jewelry so you can’t track me from","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.404743,"width":0.7398470000000001,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"across the country.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.439592,"width":0.14603299999999997,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"He smiles, and his eyes crinkle at the corners.","bbox":{"left":0.176503,"top":0.47444,"width":0.358108,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"\"I can't help it.","bbox":{"left":0.544624,"top":0.47444,"width":0.11480400000000002,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"I miss you…and you never","bbox":{"left":0.669526,"top":0.47444,"width":0.21203000000000005,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"turn your jewelry off.\"","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.509289,"width":0.17642899999999995,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"I rub my ring with my thumb. You can’t turn the dumb thing off, remember?” I sigh. “I","bbox":{"left":0.176503,"top":0.544162,"width":0.682151,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"miss you too. The distance is freakin' killing me.\"","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.579011,"width":0.38886099999999996,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"Loneliness threatens to seep in again.","bbox":{"left":0.516552,"top":0.579011,"width":0.292608,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"Five months ago, Drew recruited me for the Agency. Now, he's across the country being","bbox":{"left":0.176503,"top":0.613859,"width":0.69467,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"treated by world-class doctors, enduring intensive rehabilitation to get back to his old fighting","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.648708,"width":0.73638,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"self.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.683556,"width":0.033157000000000006,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"I'm left to deal with the emotional baggage of what I'd done.","bbox":{"left":0.160824,"top":0.683556,"width":0.472588,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"Without him.","bbox":{"left":0.643448,"top":0.683556,"width":0.10403899999999999,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"\"How are you healing?","bbox":{"left":0.176503,"top":0.718405,"width":0.18037,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"Are you seeing any progress?\" I ask.","bbox":{"left":0.366944,"top":0.718405,"width":0.28688300000000005,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"\"I met with another doctor yesterday.","bbox":{"left":0.176503,"top":0.753291,"width":0.290686,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"The bones are almost completely healed and the","bbox":{"left":0.482042,"top":0.753291,"width":0.37738999999999995,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"surgeries deemed a success.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.78814,"width":0.218543,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"Now it's a matter of physical therapy to strengthen the muscles and","bbox":{"left":0.34616,"top":0.78814,"width":0.525295,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"get me back to the person I was before.”","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.822988,"width":0.316392,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"\"How much longer are they thinking?\"","bbox":{"left":0.176503,"top":0.857837,"width":0.304142,"height":0.01677899999999999}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}