COLIN
“Whatever you do, don’t check your e-mail or do any work,” my mother told me over the phone.
She’d called early that morning, which worried me at first since she rarely every called and she knew I was in Paris. Of course, I should have known it was to nag me about getting out, having some fun, and meeting a nice girl.
“This is supposed to be a vacation,” she went on. “You not only deserve it, you need it, Colin.”
“I know,” I said, sighing as I scrolled through my e-mail on the laptop in front of me.
My gaze fell on one from Whitney, and my heart stopped for a moment. My chest lurching as hard as my stomach just seeing her name in my inbox.
“Why are you so quiet? You’re not on your dang laptop already, are you?” she asked me.
I closed the laptop and walked over to the bed, sitt
