If she’s touched his knee once, she’s touched it 20 times… excerpt, Beat The Rain

If she’s touched his knee once, she’s touched it twenty times… excerpt, Beat The Rain

The dinner party continues and Louise’s friend Alice and her new boyfriend John arrive. He seems nice to Adam in a nondescript kind of way. Not offensive, not particularly interesting but nice enough in an unmemorable way. Alice seems happy though, and that’s lovely to see. Adam thinks she’s been unhappy for a long time, even before her boyfriend left, if he’s honest. She’s one of life’s meek people who tend...