Just as she had started to do that, just as she had started to turn around, the door opened. I had to admit that my initial reaction was confusion, since I didn’t understand who else there was who would need to come in here. But as soon as my eyes fell on Marcel, who was in the process of stepping through the door, I couldn’t deny the fact that I was insanely relieved to find that he had decided to come back.
Unfortunately, I was already able to pick up on the fact that he was far from happy, and even without him saying anything, I knew that he was going to take his emotions out on the two of us. I was suddenly thankful that his timing had been as it was, because now the doctor was here to take half of the suffering with me.
It was a bargain, looking at it from the brighter side of thi
