FALLING FOR MY BEST FRIEND'S FATHER
"That's not a complaint. That's just what happened."
He watched her take a bite of pasta with the expression of a man quietly rearranging something large and fundamental inside himself, and said nothing, because nothing was the right answer.
The woman appeared between the main course and dessert.
She came from two tables over, mid-forties, bright lipstick, the particular smile of someone who recognises a face from a conference name-tag. "Marcus Blake? Oh, I thought that was you. Sarah Chen, Morrison and Hale, we worked together on the Westport project two years ago."