His First Love, My Last Goodbye novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: New York
Matthias stopped the car at the curb of a brick building on the East Side and turned off the engine.
He did not get out.
He did not reach for her door.
Esme sat with her bag on her knees and looked at the glass doors.
He had spoken perhaps nine words in four hours.
"This is it," he said.
"I know."
"I'll be here."
"It's eight hours, Matthias. Maybe more."
"Then it's eight hours."
"You can't sit in a car for eight hours."
"I've sat on a porch all night in the rain."
She turned to look at him.
He had shaved that morning, badly, and there was a nick under his jaw.
He looked like a father outside a school.
"You're not coming in," she said.
"No."
"Not to the lobby."
"Not one step."
Something in her chest moved.
She did not look at it.
She got out, and the cold took her breath, and she walked through the doors alone.
The infusion floor was on the ninth level, and it did not smell of fear.
It smelled of coffee, which was somehow worse.
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