Chapter Four
He dangles on a string before her eyes. Everywhere she turns, he’s there. She meets him once, now twice, and suddenly their social circles collide like crashing locomotives.
Lana comes to the barbeque unaware that he’ll be there standing next to Meredith Cornelius. That Meredith! She exclaims to herself as she sees him on the arm of her college friend. They weren’t close, so there’s no reason why she’d have the current scoop on Meredith’s love life. Lana’s here because her older brother was her lover for a time, and afterwards they settled into one of the most pleasant platonic relationships she’s ever had. Isaac loves her despite all her s****l foibles, and she can tell him everything—at least she could tell him everything. But not now. She wishes she never came, is lookin
