Chapter 62

He was cold and limp, unresponsive in my arms. “No, I can see that it isn’t going to work out. Just like it didn’t with Arielle. There is just no way to make it work. I’m going to have to go back to Morocco.”

“Then I’ll come with you, if it comes to that. I can get a job as a French teacher there. You’ll get a job at a car dealership based on Jean Claude’s recommendation. That wouldn’t be so bad.”

“If you are not Moroccan, you will not get a job as a French teacher. They only hire Moroccans for that. They won’t hire the French, or any other westerners, so they won’t hire you.”

I grabbed him again, holding him tighter now, forcing him to look at me. “Rabi, listen to me. Don’t give up on us. We’ll make it work. A solution like that would only be temporary until something better came along. We would be together. That’s the most important thing.”