Look, I’m happy when I can remember their names two books later

Ava and I are always teasing the World’s Greatest Receptionist. She could have been separated from us at birth. She’s very smart, very funny, and cuttingly snarky. We have many similar opinions about a myriad collection of topics. One specific thing that I’d like to note is that she is equally as unromantic as we are (which is hysterical that we write romance novels, eh?).

Not too long ago, she brought up the phrase “Soulmate”. She has a particular animosity towards it. She and her husband even use it as a code word to get out of bad situations.

On Tuesday, Ava and I went to her house during lunch because she’s determined that Ava will help her redecorate her house. I went along for the ride. Any opportunity to get out of the office, you know. They discussed color schemes and sizes of tile and granite and a bunch of crap I don’t care about. My house is a disaster and I’m too tired to care. I wondered around, paused at the refrigerator. and read the things stuck up there.

“What the hell is this crap?” I cackled away in derision and pointed to a the following quote typed up nice and neat and taped to the door.

“My dearest. You are the sun and the moon. You are everything lovely.”

“Why don’t you just add soulmate to it?” I asked and continued laughing. “Where the hell did you get that?”

WGR stopped talking and gave me a deadpan stare. “I got it from you, you idiot. It’s from your book.”

Oh.

Honest to god I had no idea. I don’t even remember which book. Now that I read it again, it’s actually not that mushy and really quite pretty.

I’m such a dork–I’ve been laughing about this for days.