IT COULD HAVE GONE further than the dinner she mused later that night as she stepped out of the shower and proceeded to dry herself off. The dinner was a success, the conversation around the table both illuminating and entertaining, Damien’s vocabulary now included chorizo and Spanish and afterwards Karen had washed the dishes while she bathed Damien and got him ready for bed. She came downstairs some time later to find Karen watching When Harry Met Sally and the older woman stretched and yawned when Valerie sat down beside her.
“I can rewind it if you want.”
“Don’t bother,” she smirked, “I watched it just a few months ago for the umpteenth time and not just for the orgasm scene. It reminds me of how it was between Robbie and I when we first met, I was so bloody determined not to fall fo
