Chapter 5

"Guess you'll just have to get used to it," I said.

He just stayed quiet.

After supper, we headed to bed. He was out in no time.

He started mumbling in his sleep again, "Maya, I've been waiting for you for seven years..."

I lay there, wide awake, listening to Adrian mumbling in his sleep.

Seven years. He'd been waiting for her for seven years. I'd been married to him for ten years, and he'd been waiting for her for seven.

By our third year together, he'd already started waiting for her to come back.

That was right after I…