They Went on a Holiday Cruise and Left Me With a Man They Called a “Problem”

of someone who has always known his way around a kitchen. He set the table while I lit candles, placing everything at precise intervals. I rearranged one of his place settings slightly just to watch him notice it.

He noticed immediately.

“Leave it,” I told him.

He left it, though it clearly cost him something.

When the doorbell rang that evening, the table continue reading …