Audrey couldn’t keep her mind on her work the rest of the night. She kept replaying the scene over and over.
“Go out with me. On a date. I bet we could make a great team for the rest of our lives.”
She heard his words in her mind. Each time, a fresh pinch of pain came with them. Why had she done it? Why had she said no?
When he asked, her heart leapt for joy. She liked him, and was so thrilled to see him making improvements and healing and doing the hard work. And she was even more thrilled that she’d been able to help him get there.
She hadn’t been lying, either, when she’d said that he had helped her, too. Very few people knew her story. Three, in fact. Her mother, her therapist, and herself. Well, and now Kenny. So four. It had been the first time in a very long time that she’d had
