KING'S BAY METROPOLITAN HOTEL
No sooner has Brent placed down the
phone than there comes another knock at the door. At first he is certain
he is imagining things. Another visitor, this early on New Year's morning?
But the knock sounds again just seconds later, making him quite certain
that someone else really has come to see him.
He moves quickly to the door and
undoes the locks to open it.
"Molly,"
he says in surprise.
"Hey," she manages. "Good morning
... did I wake you up?"
"Actually, no," he says with an incredulous
shake of the head. "What's up?"
"I'm really sorry I came by so early.
But I wanted to talk to you, and I figured I'd better get over here before
you went out."
He sits down on the bed and a yawn
escapes. "Is this about last night?"
"Yeah ... You ran out after Sarah
so quickly that I didn't get a chance to ask you what was going on."
"It was ... quite a scene."
"I noticed. I'm the one who wound
up wearing champagne, remember?"
"All too well, yes." He drops his
face into his palms and sits like that in silence for an extended moment.
"I'm really sorry about that."
"You don't have to apologize for
Sarah."
He shrugs. "I guess I owe you an
explanation as to why that happened, huh?"
"I was kind of hoping you could do
that, yeah."
"Well, I don't know if you saw, but
at midnight," he explains, stalling with a pause, "I ... I couldn't kiss
her. I don't know what happened, but I just looked down at her and I thought,
'I can't do this.' There was no way I could kiss her."
Molly says nothing in response. She
brushes a hand over the bottom of her nose, trying to come up with some
way to fill the space.
"So she took me outside to talk,"
Brent continues. "And I just told her ... what I had to."
Molly's heartbeat is quickening,
and the organ suddenly feels as though it will leap into her throat any
second now. "What was that?"
She isn't sure that she hears the
words at first, but they are real. "I told Sarah that our marriage is over.
For good."
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