Aria
I shouldn’t have felt this nervous. It was just dinner with an older man whose kiss had been replaying in my mind all day.
Totally normal, totally fine. Nothing to freak out about, right?
I gripped the steering wheel tighter and forced myself to breathe normally as I turned into the main street. My heart had been pounding since I left the office. Actually, if I was being honest with myself, it had been pounding since lunchtime when I turned on my phone and saw a message from Daniel asking me to have dinner with him in his house after work.
Before my brain could even process the message or fully understand what was happening, my fingers were already moving on their own, typing out “yes” and hitting send.
Though I quickly had to switch my phone off again when a new message from
