He always seemed to appear when she felt her most fragile. He was smiling now, as if she hadn’t just destroyed his shoe and probably mangled his foot. XXX “Every once in awhile, a man will tempt you,” her mother had told her. His eyes got serious. “Every once in awhile, a man will tempt you,” her mother had told her. She jotted her number down, finding herself nervously handing it back to him. “Ok, then. His reassurances that it was only for the two of them made her feel so wanted. His reassurances that it was only for the two of them made her feel so wanted. He always seemed to appear when she felt her most fragile. His eyes got serious. How did he do that? “Ok, then. She avoided his eyes, but in the peripheral at the upper part of her vision, saw
