The therapist’s name was Dr. Ellena Park, and she came recommended by a cardiologist Damian had met at a conference three years ago who had mentioned her in the offhand way people mentioned things they believed in but were not sure they were allowed to discuss in professional settings.
Damian had filed the name. He filed everything.
He called her the morning after he left Seraphina’s apartment. Not because he had planned to, not because he had arrived home and assembled a list of appropriate responses to the previous night and concluded that therapy was the correct next step. He called her because he had sat in his apartment until four in the morning and had not been able to locate a single internal resource adequate to what was happening inside him, and Damian De Luca did not tolerate i
