Chapter 6

After packing, I realized I only had a suitcase’s worth of clothes, even less than when I moved out after college graduation.

Checking my phone, I saw it was already past midnight.

Cole still hadn’t returned.

No messages either.

It dawned on me that what I thought was a shared journey with Cole was really just me going it alone.

He didn’t care at all.

That was not what he wanted, either.

Dragging my suitcase downstairs to catch a cab, I realized I had nowhere to go.

Hesitating whether to go back up, I suddenly saw Cole.

He wasn’t alone, was he?

The dim lights in the neighborhood were faint, but I could see two figures entering the elevator.

At this hour, it had to be Nadia.

Checking my phone again, sure enough, Cole had replied, “I’m tired. I don’t want to argue today.”

That was it.

Just those two sentences.

Any thought of staying another night vanished.