Chapter 49

They were boarded and set to go. That morning, Gen woke up yet again with the fear of returning to the status quo — to how things had been for the months they had been married and living together in New York. They had no reason to be cordial with each other now.

The deal had been secured; all that was left was for Señor Ramirez to come over to New York and sign the agreement. They were also returning to their regular lives, and now they didn’t need to keep each other company like they had done the day before.

She was already bracing herself to not see him so much, to return to spending the hours to midnight alone, nursing a glass of wine — to the silent, lonely life of Geneva Anderson Scott. She could admit it now: the last fourteen months were lonely. Very, very lonely.

She had not realized how much until this trip to Madrid and spending the last two days with him. He was a fun person. She had suspected this in the days when they had just been social media frie