I watched as Ivy walk away from me after I held her arm to restrain her and went towards where her car lay parked and at that point as I watched her departing back I made the decision that I had been dithering over, I would take the job that her father had offered me and stay on in Doylestown for a little while longer, at least until I figured out what had caused the shadows that I saw in her eyes, the protective instincts that I had always nurtured when it came to Ivy kicked in and I decided that I would not rest until I found out what troubled her and cast an unhappy shadow over her, a part of me argued that what I felt was simply wistful thinking, I had run away from her for so long because I could not measure up to her and now that she had found someone who would love her openly and wi
