I shook my head. Was I mad to harbour these thoughts? I’d wanted this moment; now I had to live with it! No, I wasn’t crazy. I was happy, but scared.
Our life together proceeded under the best of omens. No grey sky or large clouds on the horizon. In the beginning, is it always so easy when you set up home with the person you love? With Dmitry, s*x had gone downhill quite quickly. Cohabiting had just been a financial arrangement. He’d taken advantage of his rent being halved. Frank didn’t care about money; he didn’t even want me to contribute to living expenses.
‘I had that much to pay before; I can still cope with the same amounts,’ he’d said. He just wanted us to split our spending on food.
I became aware that Frank genuinely liked me. I noticed it in how he looked at me, listened to m
