She’d been happier with him than she had ever thought imaginable, but only now she understood it wasn’t because their DNA had dictated it, but becaus… - John Marrs

“Don’t be like that, mate. After all, it all turned out okay in the end, right?”
If by okay, he meant a dead fiancée, a child that wasn’t his and his soul mate lost forever on the other side of the world, then yeah, he was great, Nick thought bitterly.

He put the phone away and pondered what his Match might look like, before deciding it was inappropriate to be thinking about a second woman while he was still in the company of the first.

The decor of her office was as sparse as her home, she realized. It said nothing about her. But when you didn’t care enough about your own decisions it was far more convenient to pay interior designers to make them for you.