Nora returned home, and spent the whole day alone, orphaned of complicity and support. Dorian would have gone to work — or so he supposed — so he would have no company until the evening. So he took the opportunity to retaliate, drinking one glass after another. He was not doing it quickly, if not trying to savor each drink to its last consequences. He had already tried everything; He had cornered them separately, and what had he achieved other than suffering from an ailment that went beyond the physical and emotional? They hadn't said anything he didn't already know: lies and more lies, justifications everywhere, betrayals that were repeated ad nauseam, with their putrid smell penetrating his guts, to the marrow, with his heart broken and his head assaulted by the fear. An atrocious, voracious, insensitive, stealthy fear that was capable
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