Chapter 33

• Opening the passenger door, he helped me in.
• As he got in and pulled out, he asked, “So, how was Seattle? Was it a supplier you were meeting?”
• I often went away to meet a new supplier for my design business, so it was a natural assumption for him to make. Other than the text I’d sent about when I was getting back, Carl and I hadn’t talked since he’d last called me last… My heart quickened as I remembered again what Carl had suggested over the phone then: it was time to get a hotel room together, time to take things to the next level in our relationship.