Dan Taylor Is Giving Up on Women (24 page)

SuperDan82
: Hmm. Maybe we’ll see about that…

There was a buzz on the intercom as the pizza guy arrived with my double pepperoni.

FunnyGal483
: Hang on, the burglar’s forgotten his keys again.

I buzzed the outer door, and sifted through my loose change for a tip as the door knocked and a muffled voice said, ‘Pizza.’

I opened the door. She was there, wearing a student woolly hat and with a smile that made my heart leap and several other internal organs somersault. I watched her, my hands shaking. She looked beautiful. The hand she was holding her phone in was wobbling too as she grinned and showed me the chat we’d just been having online. She slipped it in her coat. I didn’t know what to say, or do — especially as there was a fourteen-inch Domino’s between us.

Slack-jawed, I stood at the door while she told me she wasn’t sure what she was doing, but that she had to try doing it anyway. That there could be no guarantees things would work out and there’d be difficult times ahead. That someone still entangled in a bad marriage was a dangerous person to be with. And seeing as she’d bolted once, she could do it again. But despite all of that she hoped what I said on the train platform was true, and that soon we could start making up for lost time.

At least, that was what I read into the intense flickering eye contact between us as we stood there silently.

What she actually said — eventually — with eyes glossed with tears, nose crinkled in amusement and a cute dimple from her big smile was, ‘Anyone order a spicy hot one?’

I pulled her through the door, and into my arms.

The pizza might’ve got a bit squashed by the time we got to eating it.

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Dan Taylor is Giving Up on Women

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