Joe had walked out of the hotel and followed a sign towards the lakeside promenade. His mind was racing. He felt sick to his stomach as the bizarre situation at the dinner table kept flashing through his head again and again. He had caught a glimpse at Danny right before she had gotten up. She had h
She clicked her tongue in this annoying too-bad-for-you kind of way. “You better change your attitude, Honey,” she said then, “because I’m pregnant.” Joe closed his eyes and sucked in a breath. “You have to come back to me…” she announced in a tone mothers use with misbehaving children. Joe grou
He tapped on the display of his phone, opening the contacts. He scrolled down. For a moment he hesitated. Then he tapped on the number he was looking for and put the phone back against his ear. It rang three times and then Steve picked it up. “Joe? Hi! How are you doing?” Steve sounded surprised.
When Joe returned to the dining room, their table was deserted. The others had obviously moved to the other room with the projector that Rick had been talking about earlier. At the reception Joe asked for directions. He needed to head to another wing of the building. Walking down a long corridor
The waiter came to take their order. “Just order anything,” he told Sarah. “I really don’t care what I have…” Sarah ordered two cocktails that she knew they both liked. For a moment they just sat in silence, Joe gloomily staring at the table between them, his arms crossed. “I can’t believe she d
“The password’s not all that hard to figure out,” he said, “And the e-mails I get really aren’t all that exciting. At least I thought so.” “Okay,” Sarah said slowly. “Guess she found an interesting one after all… But why do you have to go back to the house? The damage is already done anyway. And yo
Joe threw his bag into the trunk and the small backpack on the backseat and then got on his way. He realized too late that he had left his glasses in the backpack. How confused was he already that he didn’t even remember the most basic things? His vision without the glasses wasn’t too bad, but th
Thankfully, everyone who had contributed photographic material seemed to have – consciously or not – avoided including anything that would show Joe and her in a way that would indicate romantic involvement. Maybe it wasn’t so much that they had avoided it, but more that there simply wasn’t a lot of