CLIO
The hallway incident had shaken up Clio quite a bit. She avoided me for most of the day, and by the time I got to see her again, Lila was already home.
What terrified me was the fact that the one time in that evening that our eyes briefly met, I could see her pulling away. I was losing her, and the realization of that was sending me into a panic. We had to get this straightened out. There were three adults in this situation, and there was no reason that this couldn’t be hashed out in a mature manner…except that I knew deep down that wasn’t the case. This wasn’t one of my clients trying to position themselves into more favorable terms—there was a family, friendship, and love on the line.
First things first, I had to make sure Clio and I were on the same page. Then, once that was se
