He entered to find Addison on the phone. He sat watching her as she wrapped up the call. The woman in front of him seemed nothing at all like the woman he knew. She looked all grown-up there in that fancy office, using fancy words, in her fancy dress. Patrick wondered how he’d missed so much.
Eventually, she placed the phone in the cradle and eyed him suspiciously. “What are you doing here?”
He looked around the office anxiously. “This is impressive, almost as big as mine.”
“I assume you didn’t come to check out the square footage.”
Patrick cleared his throat. “How did we let it get this far, Addison? I know I’ve made a lot of mistakes. Trust me. I know that. But we don’t even talk anymore. And then you up and move out, just like that?” He looked toward the window and then back at her.
