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news. I took that as a good sign.
    “All right,” she said, “just hop up here and take off your shoes and socks for me please.”
    “No problem. Anything else I should take off?”
    “Very funny.”
    I did as I was told and Anna got out some lotion and set about her work.
    “It’s the left ankle, right?”
    “Yes.”
    “Still having any pain?”
    “Sometimes.”
    “Yeah, it does look a little swollen. Here, let’s work on that.”
    She began massaging the area around my ankle, trying to push the excess fluid back where it belonged. Oliver had done that a thousand times before and it was always pretty uncomfortable, but when Anna did it I didn’t mind so much. I just sat there and marveled that I had her hands on me once again after so long. I watched her as she sat in her chair, with my foot in her lap, her eyebrows scrunched in concentration. God, she was always so perfectly beautiful. I wanted to kiss her, right then and there, but I had to content myself with resting my foot in her lap. At least, for now.
    “So what are you doing after work?” I asked.
    “Unpacking.”
    “Unpacking? Wow. So you just got here? Like, you moved back from Australia?”
    “Yesterday afternoon, yeah.”
    “And you got right to work. So I guess you haven’t changed at all, huh?”
    “I think maybe I’ve changed a little,” she answered with a small smile, the first I’d seen on her all day. Making her smile always made me feel great. Like I could do anything.
    “Well, you’ve got to eat, don’t you? Let’s have dinner. We can catch up a little,” I said, figuring it couldn’t hurt to try.
    “I don’t think that’s a good idea, Hunter.”
    “No? Seemed like a good idea to me. We both consume food daily to keep alive, so I thought we could do it together. But maybe another time.”
    “Maybe,” she answered, and then I saw her second tiny smile of the day, though she tried to hide it. I took that as another good sign.
    After a while our session ended, and it looked like Anna didn’t have any more patients waiting for her in the sitting area.
    “So, are you off for the day?” I asked.
    “As a matter of fact, I am,” she answered, with a hint of suspicion in her voice.
    “Do you need a ride home?”
    “No thanks, I can walk from here.”
    “Perfect, I’ll walk with you.”
    Anna hesitated for a few seconds, then finally sighed and nodded. She grabbed her bag from the back room and soon we were on our way. As I walked next to her down the sidewalk, in her old neighborhood Santa Monica no less, I couldn’t help but feel like nothing at all had changed. I had to struggle against the urge to take her hand in mine.
    “You know, Anna, I’ve missed you like crazy all these years,” I said. After all, at this point, what did I have to lose? I thought I’d never see her again. And yet, here she was right in front of me. I was never big on wasting time.
    “I...” Anna hesitated.
    “What? What is it? Come on, what’s there to be afraid of? I know you’ve missed me too.”
    “I have missed you, Hunter. I never stopped missing you,” she said, her voice a tiny whisper.
    “That’s good,” I said, reaching for her hand.
    “This is my place,” she said, pointing to a modern brick apartment building. “I’ll see you at your next appointment, OK?”
    Before I could answer, she had turned around and was practically running up the steps to her apartment.
    “OK, Annabelle,” I said, calling her by her old nickname. “I’ll see you then.”
    I wasn’t sure why she was running away from me, but whatever it was, I knew we could handle it. Fate had brought us back together, so there was nothing that could keep us apart. Right?

Chapter Six
Anna
    A few days later, it was time for my next appointment with Hunter. As I got ready that morning, I suddenly wasn’t so happy that my job was in such a casual, comfortable work environment. Once again, I wished I could put something on that would knock Hunter’s