The Ex Effect

"Your place or mine, Slim?" he asked as we approached his truck.

I sighed, tightening my hold on his neck.

"Anywhere," I told him honestly. "I'll go anywhere as long as I get to be with you."

"I'm in love with you, Ava. But I don't think you're ready to hear it yet."

"Meeting halfway between our buildings is super professional."

If it wouldn't have been childish to reply with NO IT IS NOT, I would've done it. Just to hold on to the last few shreds of my sanity.

"Oh screw you, Hawkins,"

Matthew Hawkins: It's a date.

Me: I'll meet you at the corner of Hawthorne and Eighth in fifteen minutes.