Chapter 213

Any minute now, he was going to start asking questions she could not answer. She had to head him off with something plausible. I wanted a career and my own independence, and as a teenager, it seemed to me that as soon as a girl fell in love, she stopped wanting those things. So I vowed not to fall in love. It was far too dangerous. Remaining a virgin was a by-product of my decision not to fall in love.’