Chapter 38
David did fly over and surprise me for my birthday in May. I genuinely hadn’t been expecting him too, because it was only a couple more months before I was due to join him in LA.
But he booked a suite at the Ritz - it had become a kind of in-joke between us - joined my friends and I for the night out we had planned, and insisted on paying for everything. I don’t think we had planned to end up in some upscale bar in the West End, given our student budgets, but somehow David steered us there and everyone got hammered on champagne cocktails. There were also amazing bar snacks.
“Sometimes I think there are some perks to dating you,” I told him.
“Free drinks and great s*x?” David asked, his mouth close to my ear.
“Do you offer the latter as well?”
His lips were on the sensitive
