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found the area he wanted and applied the pressure. She couldn’t tell if he was using his thumb or his knuckle, but the pressure was instantly intense, and she curled her hands into fists at her sides.
    “Too much?” he asked gently.
    “No, it’s okay,” she said through bated breath.
    “Alright. Hang in there, you’re doing great. About ten more seconds,” he said, rubbing her shoulder with his free hand.
    When he released the pressure, the instant relief almost made her laugh, and then she felt Adam take the pad of his thumb and gently rub across the knot.
    “Oh, that’s already much better,” he said softly, and she closed her eyes at the gentle pressure that now felt so good. “Ideally, you should do this three or four times in a row. Can you handle one more, do you think?”
    She whimpered softly. “Fine, one more, but only if you do this again afterward.”
    She heard his quiet laugh before he soothingly laid his palm over the trigger point. “Okay, try to keep breathing this time,” he said, and when she felt the firm, concentrated pressure again, she pulled her brow together and focused all her energy on taking slow deep breaths.
    After what seemed like forever, he finally released his hold. “Okay, that’s enough for today,” he said in a soothing voice as he rubbed his thumb gently over the now-weakened knot, causing Lauren to sigh.
    “That feels really good,” she mumbled into the table.
    “From this side too,” he said. “It’s almost completely broken up. You should keep doing this over the next couple of days. Have your boyfriend or your roommate do this for you.”
    “I don’t have one,” Lauren sighed into the table, and she felt his thumb stop on her back.
    “What, a roommate? Or a boyfriend?”
    Lauren pushed off the table slightly so that she could turn to look at him, fighting her smile when the hope she thought she heard in his voice was written all over his face.
    “Either,” she said before she lay back down on the table, burying her face like a child to hide her grin.
    “Okay,” he said, resuming his ministrations. “Well then I can just keep doing it for you for the next few visits.”
    “Okay then,” she said through her smile.
    “Okay then,” he echoed.
    And she could tell he was smiling too.

    “So you’re not gonna offer it up?” Jenn said, lifting her glass of Merlot and taking a sip, her eyes pinned on Lauren. “You’re really going to make me ask?”
    “Make you ask what?” she said casually as she perused the menu.
    Jenn sighed in exasperation before she said, “Del. What’s going on with you and Del?”
    Lauren glanced up at Jenn, her expression unimpressed. “Are we going to do this at every dinner now?”
    “Oh, stop it. I asked you last time because he’d just shown back up in your life like two days before that. And now, it’s four weeks later. And you see him every day. You don’t expect me to be curious about how that’s panning out?”
    “If something had happened, don’t you think you would know? I talk to you on the phone all the time.”
    “Ah, yes, but I can’t see your eyes then.”
    Lauren shook her head and laughed. “You’re an idiot.”
    “An idiot who knows her best friend,” she said, placing her glass down and leaning across the table. “So I repeat, what’s going on with you and Del?”
    Lauren sighed and placed the menu on the table, looking her friend in the eye as she answered, because she knew Jenn wouldn’t be satisfied any other way. “Nothing.”
    “ Nothing ?”
    “Sorry to disappoint,” she said with a shrug.
    “How is it that you haven’t addressed anything with him yet? You talk to him everyday.”
    “Just like I talk to every other parent,” Lauren said nonchalantly as she took a sip of her wine. “A quick update on their kid, answer any questions, and off they go.”
    Jenn sat back in her chair. “It doesn’t matter what the topic of conversation is. You’re not starting on square one