"Answer it," Roger insisted, and she reluctantly picked up the phone. "Hey, how are you?" Wade's excited voice cut through. "Missing you, and wondering if we could have lunch together." Her absence constantly left a strange emptiness he struggled to contain. She wasn't the first woman he had been with, but she was different, and even her energy was on another level. Therese was what he would term as holding tight and yet, not too tight to scare her away. It was something he had never done before in his relationships with other women. "I'd love to, but I just got fired from my job, so I need to send applications around, sorry." There was silence for a moment before he suddenly exclaimed in a panicked voice, "I knew it. It must be that Roger." Delanie's eyes widened as she r

