«Look, your ex is here collecting scraps,» spotting his former wife in the restaurant, Kyle and his mistress hurried over to mock her, but when she turned around, they FROZE IN SHOCK…

— I don’t want to eat, — Sarah lied, although she hadn’t even had time to breakfast. She was worried that she wouldn’t have enough money for the cafe, and payday was still four days away. — Sarah, I’m very hungry, and I didn’t have time to breakfast today, and I’ll faint from hunger soon, — Kyle lied on the fly.

He realized that the girl was afraid she’d have to pay, and she was clearly limited in money. — Let’s do this, since I’m the hungry one, I’ll pay for lunch. Sarah wanted to object, but Kyle stopped her. — No, I don’t want to hear anything.

You have your principles, I have mine. I’m inviting you to lunch, so I pay for it. If you want to invite me, then you’ll pay.

Deal? Okay, — Sarah gave in, who also desperately wanted to eat. They went into the cafe, which turned out to be quite expensive. Fearing that Sarah would refuse to eat seeing the prices in the menu, Kyle took the responsibility to order lunch.

— I sometimes have lunch here, so I know exactly what to order. He lied again. Will you trust my taste? Do you have any special preferences? Fish, meat, chicken? — No, no preferences.

I’m not picky and eat whatever they give. The main thing is that it’s tasty. — Sarah, you’re a real treasure, — Kyle said honestly.

He placed the order, put aside the menu, and looked attentively at Sarah. — Sarah, I have a suggestion, let’s switch to ‘you’. Sarah got embarrassed, as if Kyle had suggested kissing right here and now.

— I don’t know, — the girl said shyly. — Probably okay to ‘you’. — What’s wrong with me? Why am I mumbling? I can talk normally.

Why am I afraid of him? Or not afraid? What’s going on at all? — flashed through Sarah’s head. — Great, it’s more comfortable to communicate that way. Tell me about yourself, — Kyle asked.

Sarah told that she came from a small town to apply, but failed. She told about her parents, brothers, that she was recently in the city and still hadn’t adapted properly. — It’s hard in a big city after a small town.

Everyone is somehow strangers, angry, — the girl admitted. — But I’m getting used to it little by little. — Yes, — Kyle agreed.

— A big city is a struggle for survival. And what do you do? — And me? I work in a company that deals with freight transportation. We work across the whole country and abroad.

— And what do you do? — Deputy general director for personnel management, — Kyle smiled. — A beautiful and loud job title. Actually, I work directly with staff.

Hiring, firing, and so on. But I like my job. It’s always difficult to work with people, of course, but nothing to do, it’s my choice.

And the general director is my godfather, so I have no problems with the company management. — Cool. And my godfather died when I was three.

And my godmother left about eight years ago and doesn’t communicate with us. She married a German and now lives in Germany. — I’m sorry.

Well, that’s life, it happens. They sat for about two hours, ate, talked. Sarah found it very interesting, easy with Kyle, and his voice acted simply hypnotically.

Then Kyle suggested walking a bit more in the park, and Sarah gladly agreed. She didn’t want to go home at all, even less to part with Kyle. But they had to part anyway.

Kyle got a call from work, and he had to interrupt their joint walk. He drove Sarah home and promised to call her in the evening. Sarah didn’t walk home, she flew.

She liked communicating with Kyle so much. Barely waiting for her friend to return from work, Sarah retold Olivia all their communication minute by minute, not missing a single detail. Olivia looked at Sarah with surprise.

— You’re in love with him, friend? — Don’t talk nonsense, I just enjoyed talking to him, — Sarah got embarrassed, afraid to admit to herself that Olivia was right. — That’s not nonsense, it’s true, you’re glowing with happiness. The phone rang, it was Kyle…

Sarah looked at her friend and went to the room. Several times Olivia came in to call Sarah for dinner, but it was as if she didn’t notice her. She was all in the conversation with Kyle.

This continued for several weeks. When Sarah had a day off, they walked, went to the movies, to cafes, to exhibitions. On weekdays, they talked on the phone for hours.

Sarah practically dissolved in her beloved. She realized that Olivia was right, and she was indeed head over heels in love. Long weekends were approaching.

Sarah had three in a row. Kyle suggested going out of town, to his country house for all three days. Sarah really wanted to, but was terribly afraid.

— Olivia, I don’t know or know how to do anything. He’ll definitely drag me, well, you know. — It’s strange that he hasn’t done it yet, — her friend smiled.

— And about ‘don’t know and don’t know how’ don’t worry, intuition will tell you. Or your Kyle, he definitely knows. — Darn, when you talk about it, I’m ready to fall through the ground.

It’s so personal. — Come on, everyone has pretty much the same, and there’s nothing to be shy or ashamed about. All according to the law of nature.

Sarah left, and Olivia sincerely worried about her friend. She perfectly understood that a lot in Sarah and Kyle’s relationship would depend on these weekends. Sarah returned happier than before the trip.

Olivia immediately started asking how everything went. — I really liked it. I was very shy at first, but then Kyle explained to me that there’s no need to be shy, that we’re now the closest people and it will always be like that.

The last phrase alerted Olivia. — In what sense will it always be like that? Does he maintain relationships with everyone he’s ever slept with? Or did he tell you that you’re his first and only? — No, he said that he had girls before me, but I’m exactly the one he’s been looking for all his life. — Interesting, of course, — Olivia commented, but didn’t say anything more so as not to spoil her friend’s euphoric state.

But Kyle’s words somehow didn’t sit right with Olivia, as if there was something fake in them. — And how old is Kyle? — Thirty-one, why? — Nothing, just curious. So you have a ten-year age difference? — Yes, but it’s not felt at all.

You know, he’s such… Sarah began listing all the positive adjectives she could remember and invent about Kyle. Olivia listened and was silent. — What’s wrong here, I don’t understand.

Such a solid man, at thirty-one single… Okay, it happens, but for such a man to confess love after a couple of weeks and say he can’t live without a woman, somehow doubtful, especially considering that Sarah is from a small town and, to put it mildly, doesn’t match his status, — swirled in Olivia’s head. But she still didn’t say anything to Sarah. First, Sarah definitely wouldn’t share her doubts…