**** Jay ****
I’m glad my mother insisted we come to this thing. Ayla and I have grown closer as friends. It’s harder and harder to resist the urge to kiss her. Part of me regrets insisting we keep our relationship professional. I don’t want to frighten or confuse her though. She’s been through so much already. I don’t know the details but I know her husband mistreated her. I think she feels as intensely for me as I do for her though. She used to be skittish when our moments verged on intimate. Now she seems… yearning. I just have to figure out how to talk to her about it. She’s afraid of getting hurt again. So am I. But it’s more than that.
That one phone call with her jerk ex-husband was enough to give me straight-up stalker vibes. I haven’t found any cameras in her house or the offic
