They Went on a Holiday Cruise and Left Me With a Man They Called a “Problem”

it.”

“Nor should you be,” he said.

We stood for a moment while the rain continued its patient work against the glass. The clock in the hallway chimed the hour. Time, as always, utterly indifferent to human indignation.

“I refuse to be someone’s project,” I said.

“As do I,” he replied. There was quiet steel underneath the mild tone. “I left my father’s continue reading …