8King stared at Annalise’s front door. For the two weeks before they’d found Seetha, he’d been knocking on it every other day. After the first visit, he had grown accustomed to the woman’s steady warm hug of welcome every time he arrived. Today all he could think was now Seetha was on the other side of the door. Annalise might still be glad to see him, but his gut churned just thinking about seeing Seetha.
After sifting through all the info Nero had provided, he had a new appreciation for why the woman had done her best to stay aloof around him. Norton had taken their intimacy away and compressed their life together into a file everyone but the woman who had lived it could ignore.
No, he wasn’t looking forward to discussing a shared past that unfortunately only Seetha remembered. Yet he
