Chapter Sixteen: Farewell
Heathrow Airport. December 17th, 2014.
Charles had been so quiet in the car as he’d driven Alina to the airport for her flight home for the Christmas holiday. She’d tried to start some conversation with him about his own plans to spend Christmas Day with his sister and her family in Scotland, but he just mumbled an answer. Men…they were just like children when they were upset!
She cringed as she followed her husband from the Short Stay parking lot into the terminal. He’d lost a lot of weight, and the suit he was wearing was so baggy it was hanging on him like a sack. The little scene she’d arranged at the hotel the previous weekend had been intended as a reward for his fitness efforts…and he’d told her it had been a wonderful surprise, if a little challenging f
