Rose pulled up to the restaurant in her little car and stopped, parking easily in the dark but sitting a moment to check her hair and makeup with her visor light. She was meeting him here as planned, yet that heavy weight in her stomach was being stubborn and refusing to go away tonight. All day it had weighed on her, her mind, flitting back to her situation with Rob over and over and causing a deep swirling nausea making it near impossible to just relax.

She saw his car pull up in her rear-view mirror, smoothly reversing into a space across from her and waited patiently. They had gotten...