LOVE WAS NOT IN THE CONTRACT
I say.
“They do,” Mia agrees. “But you, specifically, do not. You are the most careful person I know when it comes to this. You take six months to decide on a sofa. And you’re telling me you fall completely and publicly in love in two weeks and everything is fine and there’s nothing to discuss.” She looks at me steadily. “Come on, Zara.”
It is a very good point.
It is, in fact, the point underneath which the entire contract lives, and they are sitting right on top of it without knowing it, and I am sitting here with my folded hands deciding how much longer I can hold this particular thing.