Delphine stayed at the hospital for two days, and each day felt unbearably long. Ignatius Leclair was a man with an intense innate desire for control, yet his approach was incredibly subtle and mild. He always managed to gently steer things toward his expected outcomes without drawing attention to it, much like the proverbial frog in slowly boiling water—by the time you realized, it was already too late.
Take, for example, Delphine wanting to go shopping with Leah to buy some essentials for her pregnancy. The man responded to her proposal with nothing but a silent nod. Yet, he immediately arranged for the nearest shopping mall to have a massive clearance sale. By the time the two of them finished shopping, with bags upon bags in hand, and started wondering why the mall was so empty that day, the aloof man was already waiting outside to escort her back home.
