Arlene

“What?”

Okay. I had no idea, absolutely no idea, why I had decided to use this moment to thank him.

“For, ehm, earlier. I was going to handle it anyways, but…”

“But you’re grateful now, aren’t you?”

“Yep..” I replied, feeling my face redden from embarrassment. “So, I’ll be taking up the expenses of whatever we get tonight. A way of saying, you know, thank you.”

His smile dissolved into that annoying smirk. “We’ll see to that.”

We strolled down the pavement, the evening lights softening the silence between us. He suddenly turned to me. “You’re not going to ask where I rushed off to last night?”

I lifted...