He had called her earlier in the week, and she could hear the smile in his voice when he asked if she really wanted to meet up for lunch, or if she was too busy with her life to manage it. She had barely held herself back enough to not admit that as a performer whose spotlight was waning, the one...
and Mrs. Jenkin Her heart felt like it was caught in her throat as she walked down the street toward Brandon’s apartment building. Her pulse leapt and skittered, choking her. She couldn’t believe she was really doing this. After making up her mind that she was going to t...
She tiptoed into the kitchen and saw that her mother had left a note indicating there were leftovers in the fridge should she want them, and even though Barbara had eaten at the office, she pulled the plastic container out of the fridge and grabbed a fork from a drawer before taking the food into...
She couldn’t bring herself to break up with him—when she wasn’t filled with dread and guilt and insecurity, Jessica knew that no man she’d ever been with, even Evan, had made her feel the way that Logan did. But she couldn’t quite bring herself to fully commit to him either. She knew it wasn’t fa...
It was slow; but of course, she had known it would be. Two of the bussers had called out, stricken down with the flu that was going around. It meant that she had to stay at the front of house, that was fine because she didn’t especially want to go over the accounts again—there was nothing she cou...
She was even able to shake her head and laugh at the fact that she had threatened to have the man thrown out. Normally, she was able to keep her composure even with the most annoying, whining patients—and since she rotated responsibilities as a family practice and a trauma doctor, dealing with pe...
Finding it empty, she glanced up from her desk to find the sky outside the high windows had changed from gracious mid-afternoon light to the hard orange-blue warning of evening falling. She chuckled and peered at the stack beneath her current exam: only eight more to go. S...
Bradley didn’t pressure her, didn’t try and discover anything more about why she had broken up with him, but their work was tense and awkward nonetheless, and Regina reminded herself firmly that this was exactly why it had been a bad idea to get involved with him in the first place. She found her...