“Don’t look now, but that guy over there has been staring at you nonstop for the past hour or so.” Sally, Nora’s best friend whispered into her ear, giggling and staring at someone to the right of Nora. Of course, Nora instinctively turned and glanced in the direction in which Sally was looking, cau

Nora tried to swallow her disappointment when they got to the semi-full bar and there was no sign of Austin anywhere there. Of course, he wasn’t there. The bar wasn’t his home after all. She sat rigidly with Sally’s new love interest and his friend, wishing that she hadn’t even come at all. Soon en

"Uh, Nora. I’ll be back shortly. Please stay here and wait for me, okay?” Austin told her, a bead of sweat forming on his forehead. Nora watched him in amazement. Who was this woman who made him so nervous and why on earth did she make him nervous? “No, no. It’s not a problem. I was already leaving

“The child's condition has worsened, Austin. I’m so sorry, but I don’t think he has much time left. We’ll try to make him as comfortable as possible in the meantime.” The doctor told Austin, who was sitting in a vacant chair and staring at his sleeping son … the son whom he hadn’t been there for in

“Mommy! Watch this!” Little Jimmy cried excitedly as though he had something new to show his mother, and then proceeded to perform a trick that Nora had seen him perform countless times before. However, she dutifully smiled at him and pretended to be very enthralled by what he was doing. “That's re