LEONARDO

I decided to step out of the house for a few days. Just go somewhere, even though I didn't want to. But anywhere was better than staying with a brooding Alexander with a dark cloud over his head. The househelps walked on eggshells around him because if you so much as breathed wrong, you were asking for it.

To say he was miserable would be an understatement, so I left so he could be miserable all he wanted.

I stood at the balcony on one of the hotels we own, overlooking the sunset, a cigarette between my fingers, but it wasn't lit. I quit smoking years ago, and right...