Delphine had a great time with Nicholas and Benjamin at the amusement park, and when Ignatius Leclair came to pick them up, he was unusually quiet.
Delphine ignored it, and took the two children back to the hotel to freshen up. Nicholas and Benjamin, exhausted from playing, quickly took over their mommy's bed like little pigs and fell into a sweet sleep.
After her bath, Delphine found herself unable to sleep, so she opened a bottle of red wine and sat by the hotel's floor-to-ceiling window. She drank a little wine; though she had been back for some time, she rarely indulged in such sentimentality. Now the children were growing up healthy and safe, she had returned to her career while studying, and everything seemed to be moving in the best direction. Yet, in the stillness of night, an indescribable sadness would still well up inside her.
She didn't know how much wine she drank until the doorbell rang.
Benjamin and Nicholas turned over in bed and continued sleeping.
