Sterne by Julie Bozza @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR COLORADO MARCH 1985 Albert was approaching amidst the crowd of arrivals, luggage in hand. Fletcher waited impatiently. Jittery at facing this difficult and unpleasant problem that required a solution, however inadequate, by the end of the weekend. Nerves and exhaustion affecting his sense of time so it seemed that Albert stepped in ponderous slow motion, when all Fletch wanted was for this trouble to speed by and for Monday to dawn bright and simple. It occurred to him during the long wait that he hadn’t really put any thought into this, or at least no more than necessary. The first imperative was to get Albert away from the danger of Denver, because Denver was Xavier and passion and joy. The second was to unload the truth on Albert, make his apologies as gracefully as possible, and then to suffer through the consequences, get Albert safely on a plane back to Washington, and trust that something of the friendship - which seemed a very remote, intangible thing right now - would remain to be claimed and possibly healed in the future.
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