After Alice left, I wolfed down the rest of the pancakes. Somehow, the conversation had left me hungrier than ever. With Alice gone, I finally had time to settle down and think. I hurriedly stepped out of my clothes and rushed into the bathroom to take a long bath.
All I wanted was to slip into the comforting embrace of warm water and let all my troubles melt away.
I turned the faucet and watched as the water streamed into the tub, warning my subconscious not to think of the devil that is Roman Contini. The sound of the rushing water was soothing, its gentle roar drowned out the noise in my mind. I reached for the bottle of bath salts I had found arranged on the shelf, there were different varieties, I almost had a hard time deciding on the one to use.
I looked at the one I had chosen a
