The Art of Distraction

Stella

“Another surprise. No more appointments this time. I promise.”

Vance’s proposition takes me by surprise. I just finished crying in the car over a failed visit to some quack ‘doctor’ who wants to give me strange potions to cure my fertility issues, and all I want to do is go home and climb back into bed to sleep off the pain.

But Vance, it seems, has other plans.

“No, Vance, I just... I wan