The following Monday, Ginny was eating lunch at the counter in a diner a block from where she worked when David walked in. Desi xxx Ginny and Rachel, Jacob’s wife, kept up a string of chatter for the four blocks back to Ginny’s apartment. Then her eyelids. Ginny missed her family, and that gave her a sort of melancholy even while she was with them. Best of all, of course, would be to wake up with David’s arm around her and his warm body beside hers, his subtle male smell coming to her. He stopped at the jewelry counter, within sight of the door she now stood at. “My name is David.”
“M-Mine is Ginny.”
And it turned out a lot better than she had dreamed. That would be too much of a loss. If there had been more married women in her office who could invite her to parties along with unattached young men, it would be




















