In this melancholic state that she had accepted as being her default setting, Elektra considered the possible future that awaited her. Though she had met Eugénie’s parents only once in three years, her first stop would be their home in the Arrondissement de Passy. When they had last met, Elektra came away with the feeling that she had somehow been responsible for their only child’s choices and had coerced her into leaving Paris. Eugénie’s father Didier professed liberal views, but he had not come to terms with her sexuality and, even more, her choice to abandon a promising career in academia to teach yoga. Her mother Marielle maintained a look of defeat that was etched between her eyebrows and around her mouth and suggested that her disappointments were many and constant.
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