Addison asked Patrick to meet her at their favorite downtown restaurant. The lighting was soft, and the food amazing, but the best part was the ambiance was neither too loud nor too quiet. She knew she would have her work cut out for her with her husband, but she was done with words left unspoken, with pretending everything was okay. It clearly wasn’t. Even though she’d ended things with William, she’d realized that her marriage had been over a long time ago. It was time she got her life together.
Addison felt well prepared to do what she needed to do right up until the second she saw Patrick walk in. He was dressed in his business suit, tie unfastened, and Addison watched as he talked with the maître d’, certain she could almost see the young man in him that she’d met on that college cam
