Initially, Elise Don repeatedly refreshed her plane ticket, just to catch a flight back for the divorce. The intense anger and determination to win over Oliver Bloom, after just two days, now seemed a bit laughable, a bit tedious in retrospect.
With Oliver Bloom and the child here, Elise Don suddenly found no compelling reason to return to Northern City, or rather, the reasons seemed inadequate.
Because only the matter of divorce couldn't be handled in France, requiring her to go back.
Should she go back?
Insisting on going back meant insisting on divorce. Elise thought back to last night, to the harmonious interaction over the past dozen hours, to Shane's smiling face...
The resolve Elise had always maintained suddenly seemed uncertain.
