Listening to the Rain as We Part

Summary

It was our second anniversary.

I saw the note on my boss Alexander’s phone, and my world tilted on its axis. It was a checklist, a brutal list of requirements for his perfect girlfriend:

Under 28.

Fluent in five languages.

Stanford graduate.

C-cup…

There were twenty-five items in total. Not a single one of them described me.

In that moment, our secret, two-year affair finally made a twisted kind of sense. I tried to console myself, telling myself no one could possibly meet every single one of his ridiculously demanding criteria.

Then came the new hire interviews.