“I first spotted her in the Self-Help section.”

She’d arrived on a Monday and smiled shyly when I checked her out, but he kept her eyes on me as she walked toward the exit. The moment she disappeared, I headed to that section, found the book she’d purchased and skimmed some of the highlights: Moving forward, getting over being a dumpee, embracing adventure and change. However, the chapter heading that caught my eye was “Sex with a Stranger.”

I could be that stranger. I was more than willing to fill that role. I remembered how her eyes had stayed on me well past the point where I’d handed her a receipt, and how they’d stayed on me from outside the store. She’d stared through the glass of the front window until she lost her nerve and finally looked away, hurrying... Leer Más