Chapter 16

At this hour…? It was far too late for an unmarried man and woman to meet in private. And not just once, but every day. The thought of facing this man—whose very presence was suffocating—in this confined space for the foreseeable future was impossible to accept. “What are we going to do here?” Merdi asked, her voice barely a whisper. “If the symptoms are physical, then the solution must also be physical, no?” he replied, his tone dismissive. He spoke as if it were of no consequence.