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When the relationship ended, she had two choices; fall apart or get into the game. After four years with Gavin, could she just move on, start new, find love again?
She doubted it, never in her wildest dreams, she thought. Then again, she never dreamed like this before…
Written by Rebecca Milton
Published by AmorBooks
“Anais Ninja,” I said to him and he didn’t get it. I don’t know if there was anything really to “get”, but I woke up thinking it. I woke up, the idea of Anais Ninja was in my head and it made me chuckle. I was still chuckling about it when I sat at the kitchen table with my cup of coffee. He was there already, coffee, newspaper and the grumpy morning look he had all the time lately.
“What’s so funny,” he asked, with the undertone of; ‘are you laughing at me?’ In the past few months he had become obsessed with people laughing at him, it seemed. He was afraid that people were laughing at him, that I was laughing at him. That I was looking at his life, his actions, his day to day and finding amusement in it. “Seriously,” he said, putting the paper down, “what’s so funny?”
“Anais Ninja,” I said to him. He stared at me, spread his hands in a, is there more or is that it, gesture. I mimicked him and laughed.
