Chapter 131

Several weeks after New Year’s, and now that my parents knew for sure who my new partner was, things began to fall into place. Since Ivan could practically work from anywhere (since his job as director of VLC Air Services & Logistics was more about receiving and writing thousands of emails, analyzing projections, arranging budgets, reviewing documents, proposing business strategies, making calls and video calls, and signing things that I then sent by fax), I invited them to spend a few days with me, when Mirko told me that they were on school holidays at their academy.

Of course, I had been thinking a lot in those days while trying to develop a vague idea I had for a new novel, and I was alone again.

And the first big decision I came to was that I didn’t want to have to hide from the kids if I wanted to spend quality time with Ivan. I told him. He promised to think about it; he also didn’t feel like keeping kisses or anything else to himself until we were alone again