traffic flashing at them through the windshield.
“Is that why you never married?” she asked. “Because of your parents’ divorce?”
“It was one reason. The other is that I’ve never found the right woman.” He glanced at her. “Why didn’t you marry?”
She shrugged. “Never the right man.”
“There must have been someone in your life.”
“There was. For a while.” She hugged herself and stared out at the darkness rushing past.
“Didn’t work out?”
She managed a laugh. “I’m lucky it didn’t.”
“Do I detect a trace of bitterness?”
“Disillusionment, really. When we first met, I thought he was quite extraordinary. He was a surgeon about to leave on a mercy mission to Nigeria. It’s so rare to find a man who really cares about humanity. I visited him, twice, in Africa. He was in his element out there.”
“And what happened?”
“We were lovers for a while. And then I came to realize how he saw himself. The great white savior. He’d swoop into a primitive hospital, save a few lives, then fly home to England for a bracing dose of adulation. Which, it turned out, he could never get enough of. One adoring woman wasn’t sufficient. He had to have a dozen.” Softly she added, “And I wanted to be the only one.” She leaned back against the car seat and stared out at the glow of Paris. The City of Light, she thought. Still, there were those shadows, those dark alleys and even darker secrets.
Back at the Place Vendčme, they sat for a moment in the parked car, not speaking, just sitting side by side in the gloom. We’re both exhausted, she thought. And the night isn’t over yet. I’ll have to pack Jordan’s things. A toothbrush, a change of clothes. Bring them back to the prison…
“Then I can’t talk you into leaving,” he said.
She looked out at the plaza, at the silhouette of two lovers strolling arm in arm through the darkness. “No. Not until he’s free. Not until we see this through to the end.”
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