Matt just let her do it. He let Anna touch him in any way she wanted. Josh seemed to think it was totally innocent, so he convinced himself it was too. But then she seemed to grow bolder as time went on. Like when they were cooking dinner together and sharing wine and they were both getting a little tipsy. They were in proximity of each other in the small rectangle kitchen and making spaghetti with a homemade sauce. One way or another, Matt somehow ended up getting sauce on his nose as he was tasting it. When Anna saw it, she laughed. “You’ve got a little sauce on your nose there, handsome,” she said, with that charming grin of hers on her face. When Matt reached up to wipe it off with a napkin, she swatted his hand away and then leaned up and licked the sauce off his nose with a laugh. He laughed too. And then she kissed him on the lips. The cheek was one thing, the lips was entirely different. By now Matt was very used to being close to her and having her pet him and touch him. But kissing? That was a different story, right?
