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I stood to my feet and wondered what he was doing there. He looked up and met my gaze and like me, he appeared to be surprised to see me. “ I will call you later.” He dismissed whoever was at the other end of the phone and frowned at me. “What are you doing here?”

Without asking for his permission, I took the seat opposite from him. I took notice of his unironed shirt and wondered if he was a lot more affected by the break than I was conscious of.

“Thank God I ran into you here, I know we had to talk about our relationship in the flesh and it was honestly rude of me to have broken up with you over the phone but I swear I was going to let you know all about it in person in fact, I was going to come by your place after work today, oh goodness, I know how unbelievable this sounds but trust me.”

Tom rolled his eyes at me and shook his head. “Of course Nikki, you suddenly bump into me at a restaurant and think it makes sense to cover it up, of course.”