“Intellectually, of course I understood this was possible.” He slumped into a chair and dropped his head into his hands. “But this isn’t what’s supposed to happen.” “ ‘Supposed to?’ ” Verenice set her teacup down. “The last time I checked, you were an adult with some degree of awareness as to how the world works. Unless you’ve also become an oracle, I don’t think ‘supposed to’ enters into it. “Now, if you mean you’re frustrated by having only a bad choice, well, I can understand that. But the fact is, you do have one.
