“That’s what it looks like.”
I put the paper down.
I sat there for a long time on Nina’s couch, under her blanket, looking at nothing.
Ezoic
The family reunion hadn’t caused the end of my marriage.
It had simply shown me, as clearly as anything could, that I didn’t need to wait for the ending anymore.
Richard showed up at Nina’s office in downtown Denver three days later.
Ezoic
He’d taken the first flight out of Richmond. He was still wearing the navy jacket from the reunion, badly wrinkled now. He hadn’t shaved. The easy confidence he usually carried into every room was gone. In its place was something careful and exhausted.
Nina didn’t let him past the lobby.
She went down and met him there herself. I watched it all on the security camera feed in her conference room upstairs.
