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"Why did you come to me there?" she asked
"I had to," he said simply "If there was any chance, any chance at all I could speak to you or even see you, I had to take it"
"How did you knohere I went?" she asked "I was gone one day and by the next night, you’d found o because you did what I would have done in your place," Søren said "If I were scared and in pain and on the run"
"You would have gone to a convent?" she asked, s at the idea
Søren sone to your sley atched them both with quiet intensity It had been her first instinct to leave the country and hide out at Gisela’s house in Denmark She’d rejected it out of hand
"She would have taken you in," Søren said "You kno much she loved you It didn’t matter I was a priest She considered us ood care ofin an instant a thousand ;bleskiver pancakes she’dpiano together The long talks she and Nora had while Søren was outside playing with his nieces Nora sensed Gisela wanted Søren to leave the priesthood, get married and have children, but she never said a word about it His ether, their choices, even with all the risks they took And Nora always loved her for not trying to change either of theht have been happier with myhow fraught her relationship with her own ht until the day Nora’s o
"Probably But I loved your mom too much to make her pick sides between her only son and me That wouldn’t have been fair to her," Nora said
"Considering how I behaved that night, it’s safe to say she would have sided with you," Søren said Nora wondered how her life could have changed if she’d chosen to run to Søren’s mother instead of her own That year at her one to Gisela’s she probably would have returned to Søren as his subainst sley
"You can’t blasley said without any hint of contrition "You fucked up, and I wanted to rip your heart out with ood to say that out loud"
Nora laughed, and shockingly so did Søren
"I wasn’t very happy with you, either," Søren said "You left without a word Didn’t tell anyone where you went, not even Calliope"
"That was the point," Kingsley said, rolling onto his back "How could anyone tell you where I went if I didn’t even knohere I was going? I got to the airport and bought a ticket for the next international flight out"