Loadbearing

The building hummed, it had always hummed, you just stopped noticing it. James has spent five years at a precast concrete firm, checking other people's mistakes, staying late, smoothing things over. It's a job. It hums along.Then Rachel doesn't come in. A mass email confirms she's gone — but no one will say where, and by lunchtime her work is quietly landing on his desk, as though he'd always know...