“How did Paulo handle the news you were quitting?”
I continue to stare down at the early morning traffic from the balcony of our hotel room.
After all the drama from last night’s fight at the Merrick house, followed by my late-night call to Paulo after Jeremy and I got back to the hotel, I didn’t expect to be in another one of Jeremy’s shirts and on the balcony at four.
Jeremy fell asleep not long after we showered and made love, and once he had, something compelled me to stumble out of bed and go looking for my phone. I found it in my bag beside the front door, where he must have left it, and then I crawled back into bed.
Although Jeremy woke at the start of my conversation, he was asleep again by the end, and I realized, as I watched him sleep while talking with Paulo, that he hadn’t
