It hadn’t happened just once, she’d fantasized about kissing...

It hadn’t happened just once, she’d fantasized about kissing Joshua Gray daily for almost a year. When the crush of the subway commuters became too much, she’d close her eyes and imagine Josh, not a stranger, was sitting too close; if she didn’t open her eyes, the trick worked well enough to get Sophia home without panicking.

She lay in bed with her head in the crook of her arm that night — the night the kiss actually happened. She should have been happy. It wasn’t that he didn’t live up to her expectations or that she felt she was in love with an idea, not a person: she would have liked the Joshua Gray stuck in the museum with her even if she hadn’t had preconceived notions of him. He was supportive and sweet and he had those eyes.

Chapter 9

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