LAURA

I found him downstairs sitting on the couch, staring blankly at his laptop.

He had his back to me and therefore didn’t see me approaching, but the moment I walked into his line of sight, he moved his laptop out of the way and made to stand. Just as he braced his hands on the couch to rise, I stopped in front of him and carefully placed one knee on the outside of his thigh, then the other one, before I lowered onto him.

The look of surprise in his eyes made me feel like absolute shit. But then again, I suppose exhibiting such behaviour after the way things...