Her relationship with Ryan was much closer than she had said to me.
And the “opportunity” for which I was pressed to sell important assets was far from the secure investment he had presented to me.
I asked her straight away if she had ever loved me.
He replied:
At first, yes.
- And after?
He was silent.
Sometimes silence is the clearest answer.
Two days later I was sitting in the car in front of the house where I had lived for twenty-seven years.
For the first time I remembered Margaret’s question.
“Are you absolutely sure you know what you’re giving up?”
- No.
I didn’t know.
I came down.
We went to the door.
I’ve been calling.
- Open Margaret.
He looked different.
Not dramatic.
She didn’t get twenty years younger overnight.
But it seemed… quiet.
-
Daniel.
-
Can I get in?
Why?
I swallowed my pride.
“Because I made the biggest mistake of my life.
