“I hope you have a really great time there,” she said. Her eyes looked like fire and ice all at once.
“Me too,” I replied, and she leaned in and kissed my cheek before pulling me into a tight hug. She was slim enough that my arms could have gone round her three times and I held her close, face buried in her shoulder, feeling the shakes starting to fade.
“So,” she said into my ear, “wine?”
A few hours later, quite tipsy and sat on the foot of my bed, I was staring at my phone and hammering away at an email.
“Dear Professor Ellsworth,” it read, “Thank you very much for your offer of employment. After due consideration, I would be delighted to accept.”
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