“Let’s blame it on the timing then!” she said with sarcastic generosity. “The timing and Dad and D for being oh-so-pushy and – oh, I almost forgot – probably some incredible sex on the side. Right? I mean, you didn’t explicitly mention it, but judging from the woman involved, I assume sex played a r

In the café’s parking lot, Joe told Sarah that he needed to go by an electronics store on the way home to buy a charger for his phone. That was only half the truth, of course. Even though he hadn’t brought his charger, he still had the one for the car. And with his phone currently being turned off

Anyway, there she had been, purring like a cat, batting her eyes and persuaded him to meet her later for dinner. Over the course of that dinner he had had way more to drink than he should have. Right in the middle of the dinner he had received a message from Danny saying that he needed to contact t

Then, even though she must have had a sufficiently good view from where she was standing, she had come down the stairs two more steps as if to have a closer look. After another moment of glaring at them, she had dismissively shaken her head and said something like, ‘Wow. So, that’s what you want, h

She had been surprised when he had called her out of the blue and asked her out. It had been either that or killing his Dad or Sarah (or taking the next plane to London and making a fool of himself)… Seeing Liz again had felt good and comforting. Maybe because she had been the only person around hi