“So like I said over the phone, there are others interested in the place but if you think you might like it, I can hold off till tomorrow to have you sign the lease agreement”.
Hearing his words while looking over and beyond him, I fixated my eyes across the room onto Franks painting on the wall that he so eloquently called “The Reminder.” The large gaudy frame of gold complemented that of a single lady staring out from under the rim of her red umbrella. Her haunting big dark eyes seemed of witness to a horror that she was forever a capture of. It was those familiar eyes that were in subtle contradiction to her wide smiling painted lips of red, but only her eyes that stirred widely the emotional collision of love and hate deep within me.
