“Immediately after letting him into her apartment, Emily disappeared. She didn’t tell him to make himself at home, just opened the door, motioned him in without a smile or a look that said she was glad he was there, then disappeared.
He assumed to the kitchen.
She probably wasn’t glad he was there. He’d practically begged for the invitation. Something he didn’t quite understand. He’d only wanted to make peace with Emily, to be able to function at the hospital without undue awkwardness between them. Now he wanted to be with her because he liked being with her. Which wasn’t in his plans at all, but that didn’t seem to have stopped him from pushing for an invite to taste her cooking.
Or from feeling ecstatic that she and the pharmacist were history.
He closed the apartment door behind him and checked out her living room. The comfortably decorated room was a far cry from the hovel where they’d lived when they’d been married.
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