Chapter 34

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 stubborn and refusing to go away tonight. All day it had weighed on her, her mind, flitting back to her situation with Rob repeatedly and causing deep swirling nausea, making it near impossible to 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 into a routine of meeting in car parks, always late at night, always out of town, and Rose couldn’t help the lump that formed in her throat. The feeling that this was what they were, at the rate things were progressing, she couldn’t see an end to this either.

He wrapped her window lightly moments later, pulling her out of her head and then opened her door to help her with a hand.

“Hey, there, gor