Forbidden Temptation. Gwynne Forster

hung up. He was kind even when he was being mean. She knew he didn’t plan to call her. She had to do something to take her mind off him. That was hard enough when she was at work, but in the evenings alone at home, it was all but impossible. She couldn’t call her sisters and chat on the phone; they were newly married and would want to spend the time with their husbands.

      For several months, she had considered volunteering one evening a week at the community center in Morningside. She didn’t doubt that every shopkeeper in the area needed advice, so she made an appointment to give a talk there the following evening on the management of a small business with limited cash flow.

      “I’ll have fliers out all over the neighborhood within the next hour,” the excited social worker told her. “And maybe I’ll see if a radio station that supports us will make a few announcements. This is the first good program I’ve had here in ages.”