Chapter 6
“Okay, we’re both settled,” Geoff said. “You with your wine and me with my whiskey. So let’s get right to it. I know all about the bullshit story of you finding yourself that you fed your family. But you forget, I knew you, Adrian. At least a little bit. And you had a good life in California. You weren’t lost, existentially or otherwise.”
Adrian laughed. “You haven’t changed much, I see.”
“Meaning?”
“Your bedside manner, doctor. You’re not exactly the understanding type. It’s ‘cut the crap and tell me what’s going on.’ I think in a way that makes you a good doctor, really, but it also puts people off. They want some empathy.”
“You don’t care about that. Why look for a pretense in my character when it’s never something you needed.”
Adrian smiled. “True enough I guess. I gues
