Extra: Five days had passed.Sarah still hadn’t come home.Peter was growing restless.Her cold, distant gaze kept flashing through his mind.He had noticed the change in her, of course.But he refused to believe it.After all, he’d been her first boyfriend.Sarah’s love had always been fierce and devoted.It had even troubled him once—how much she dreamed of their wedding, by the sea, with horses and flowers.It was wonderful, in its way, but also troublesome and expensive.Sarah leaving in a fit of anger and blocking his number this time had been too much.A flicker of panic stirred in Peter’s chest.He wanted to find her, but she hadn’t told any of their mutual friends where she was.And then, a knock sounded at the door.It was Julia again.She’d been showing up every day lately.He didn’t have the heart to turn away a heartbroken divorcée.When he opened the door, she stood there carefully dressed, a fitted pencil skirt tracing the curves of her body.Peter swallowed hard, unable
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