Her thick, brown hair was usually pulled back in a single pony talk but when she let it fall free around her face, she did more than turn heads. They laughed about it the first time Lora mentioned it. XXX “She’s here. Marie got up on her knees, arms behind her back. —
John poured the last half of the Foster’s into the short glass and held the can in his hand, looking at the label without reading it. She’d been all around the world, spending a night here, a week there, and once ninety days as the live-in “deal closer” for an international developer named Han. They didn’t know what they were going to do, but they’d always talked about traveling the world if they had the opportunity. It was his wife but not like he’d seen her before. You never judge her, never talked about




















