I don't know why, but those words make my chest tense.
"You know it," he adds.
His voice is now lower.
More reflective.
"An intelligent woman is more reasonable."
His eyes are barely darkened.
"And you know what is good for you... and what not."
The silence that remains after those words is heavy, for a second I feel the air in the hallway become denser. Alexander smiles again, but this time his smile is different.
It's not warm, it's not light. There's something... bitter. Something I hadn't seen in him before.
Then he just nods, as if he's finished saying what he wanted to say.
"See you, Clara."
He turns around, and this time he doesn't stop.
He walks down the hallway with a firm step until he turns the corner and disappears from my sight.
I stand there. Motionless. And for
