Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've...um...entertained his wife.
Jojo MoyesI held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
Jojo MoyesBecause even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.
Jojo MoyesJust hold on. Just for a minute." "Are you all right ?" I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong. "I'm fine. I just...I don't want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about...I just...want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.
Jojo Moyes