Elaine
"You won't believe who I just ran into at the bar!" Mark, a coworker from an old project turned friend exclaimed, looking starry-eyed as he pulled his chair back and sat on our table.
He looked much more taken than he'd had when he picked me up tonight.
As his date, that should have bothered me, but I was actually relieved to have him focused on something else other than me.
I could finally breathe.
The date was nothing but my apology for not telling him Claire had been hurt. He had treated it as something more and I'd been prickly about it even if I had been the one to say yes.
Mark had met my daughter once and had fallen in love and since then, they'd been a version of best buddies.
Of course, that could also have been because he had a thing for me and being in my dau
