✤ Adrian ✤
Marina arrived just after noon. I hadn’t been expecting her. Not really. I had been sent home, and I had an appointment with the board in the morning. My nerves were shot. My thoughts were scattered, and my sense of time was completely distorted. So, when Marina showed up, my first instinct was to panic. I knew that she knew. I wasn’t sure how, but she knew. When she walked in, uninvited and unannounced, carrying a slim folder under her arm, I just knew that things were finally over between us. Not that I ever doubted it. Not that I didn't want it. It was just some sort of finality that settled over me.
“Marina,” I muttered as I watched her closely. “What are you doing here?” it sounded like such a silly question, but I guess a part of me needed to hear her say it out loud.
