I think about how small the room was.

” He paused.

“And how none of it mattered in the end.

” She nodded slowly.

She didn’t ask him to explain further.

She understood.

Not all of it.

Maybe not most of it, but enough.

Enough to know that the question had been answered fully.

And that the man sitting next to her had come a very long way to be this still.

The sky darkened.

The oak trees held their shape against it.

He didn’t think about Portia often.

Weeks would pass without her crossing his mind at all.

But occasionally, sitting in a first-class seat on a flight to Washington, or watching a pen move across the bottom of a contract with more zeros than he had once let himself believe was possible for a man with his last name and his starting point, he thought about one document.

One she had signed with her own hand.

In her own words.

Of her own free will.

“I want nothing to do with that business.

” He had given her exactly what she asked for.

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