Love Your Neighbour: A laugh-out-loud love from the author of One Day in December. Kat French

to burn the unread words, unsure which of the choices was braver or best.

       CHAPTER TEN

      Marla used both hands to push Bluey’s huge backside out from underneath her desk in order to make more room for her knees, then scowled at her watch. She’d told Gabe to come over after lunch. What time did the man eat? No doubt he was playing mind games, keeping her waiting as a casual demonstration of the fact that he held all the cards.

      As if she wasn’t painfully aware of that already.