Chapter 16

• George.
• I couldn't understand how, despite the ease with which I said goodbye to certain people in my life, with Marina it was something I wanted to postpone for longer. The days went by, and with the birth of Aiden's child, I had to be away from her for a night when I wasn't at home, but I was fervently thinking about the possibility that only made sense in my head.
• I took her when Isabella was already at home, and seeing her bond with them was the reason I knew that her kindness, unlike other people, was not a rehearsed show. Marina was the nemesis of the part of society that I had known all my life.