Chapter Nineteen

The first date was great but the subsequent ones were amazing. Almost two weeks since Leslie agreed to go out on a date with Kyle and they’d been at it almost every day of for the past two weeks. Few of the dates were planned a lot of them weren’t—they just happened spontaneously. After the dinner date, they went out for a walk in the park, they went to see a movie, they danced to a street artiste who was playing Leslie’s favourite song, they fed pigeons and did a lot of other things. Leslie enjoyed every bit of time they spent together. It was exactly what she needed to unwind and refocus her mind. Without Kyle, her divorce would’ve affected her worse than it did. However, Kyle took her mind off that and placed it on something even more tangible. On one of their dates, she’d opened up and told him about her marriage of 2 years and how it had ended. Kyle had been calm but inwardly, she knew he was seething. “He’s a douchebag,” he said calmly after a while of silence. “He knew how