Nicole pov "Yes," I say. "Because of that and because" I stop, looking at the blinking path light below the window. "Because I told him it meant nothing. I built the argument very carefully, and he accepted it without arguing." I pause. "Which is exactly what a man who has actually changed does, and I don't know what to do with that alongside everything else.""Nicole," Parkville's voice is gentle from the screen. "You don't have to sort out your feelings about him before you walk into that room.""I know," I say."The meeting is not about your feelings," he says. "The meeting is about the research, about the twins, and about telling the truth on your own terms rather than someone else's.""I know," I say again."Whatever he is now," Parkville says, "and whatever happened, the meeting is still the meeting. The children are still the children. Those things do not change because the situation between you has become more complicated.""I know," I say for the third time, and I mean it mo
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