”How are you doing? I haven’t heard from you in awhile.”

“You’re checking up on me.”
”How are you doing? I haven’t heard from you in awhile.”

“You’re checking up on me.”
[ a laugh managed to slip through her lips as he spoke and gave a slight shrug of her shoulders before a sigh replaced...
[ his reaction surfaces only a beat after her words cut off –– a typical, garish raising of the eyebrows and a sarcastic...