Alle Kapitel von Off Limits : Kapitel 11 – Kapitel 13

Chapter 11: The new apartment smelled like fresh paint and cardboard, boxes stacked in every corner, some labeled in Mia's neat handwriting and others in Jake's careless scrawl that she could barely read. Outside the window, a city they'd never lived in stretched out under a gray morning sky, taller buildings than either of them was used to, unfamiliar streets that still didn't have names in their heads yet."I still can't find the box with the coffee maker," Jake called from the kitchen, his voice muffled behind a wall of boxes. "We might actually die.""Check the one labeled 'bathroom,'" Mia said, not looking up from the box she was unpacking in the bedroom. "I got tired of labeling things correctly around box forty.""That explains why I found your hair dryer in the box labeled 'Jake's clothes.'""That was an accident. Mostly."He appeared in the doorway a minute later, triumphant, holding the coffee maker over his head like a trophy. "Found it. Bathroom box. You're a menace.""A

Chapter 13 The welcome dinner was held at a sleek restaurant downtown, all exposed brick and string lights that reminded Mia uncomfortably of the night, months ago, when Jake had first admitted he didn't love watching another man buy her a drink at his cousin's engagement party. She wondered, sitting there in a black dress she'd bought specifically for this dinner, whether he remembered that night too. Vanessa turned out to be exactly the kind of woman Mia had half-expected and half-dreaded — sharp, confident, effortlessly charming, the sort of person who commanded a room without seeming to try. She was also, Mia noted with a small twist in her stomach, strikingly beautiful, dark hair pulled back in a way that showed off cheekbones most people would kill for. "You must be Mia," Vanessa said warmly, extending a hand across the table. "Jake talks about you constantly. It's honestly a little sickening, how often your name comes up in casual conversation about spreadsheet formatting."