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She considered telling Glen but then realized he’d just worry, probably do so stupid like fly out just to sit outside the door waiting to pounce on the guy

The decision to treat Jacob as any of her other clients wasthe small office up until the minute he knocked on her door

Her hands actually shook when she opened it and greeted him with a smile "Good to see you, Jacob" The lie wasn’t easy but needed to be said

"Thanks for working me into your schedule"

"No problem Have a seat"

Her office had a small love seat and two side chairs for her clients and the chair she sat in during the sessions On one side of the room sat a desk that she used on occasion, but most of her ent home with her

She sat across from him, placed her notepad in her lap, and waited

He held a water bottle and continually twisted the cap

"Nina’s leaving me Left me"

Mary acknowledged hiuess you already knew that"

"I still see Nina every week"

"Yeah, she toldthan I do right now"

"You know I can’t talk to you about e discuss"

Jacob twisted the cap off, took a drink "You probably knohat she’s been up to, why she’s so distant"

It was tis and break away fro about the split?"

"Like shit It isn’t what I want I was here, wasn’t I? Working on shitall the shit we’ve swept under the carpet for years We’d coht about it for a week, and then come back for more"

Mary couldn’t deny that had been their routine Unfortunately all her advice in the world about her clients working on one thing at a time was seldom practiced outside of her office

"It did feel as if you both had a lot of shit under that carpet to work through" She used his words

His nervous hands kept twisting the bottle He drank the water alht "Didn’t matter You knohat I think?"

"No"

"I think this was a distraction This whole counseling crap was her way of showing e when she really didn’t She’s having an affair, isn’t she?"

Keeping her face neutral was a task worthy of an Oscar "What makes you believe she’s unfaithful?"