Gemotions

My fingers tingled, a feeling of unease spreading through me. I’d always found a thrill in solving complex mathematical puzzles. My notebooks were filled with equations and proofs, my mind constantly churning. My daughter, Olivia, had never shown any interest. Now, I found her working furiously at the whiteboard in her room, the walls covered in complex diagrams and mathematical notations. She was working on a problem I’d been stuck on for weeks. "Mom," she said, her voice flat, "I think I have a solution for Fermat's Last Theorem." My mouth felt dry.