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of Angie’s groggy voice nearly made her jump out of her skin.
    â€œNothing.” Lilah hastily closed the laptop.
    Angie leaped out of bed and rushed over. “Are you looking at porn?” She opened the screen and read it over her shoulder. “What’s this? I didn’t know you had a blog. I didn’t even know you knew what one was. How come you never told me about this?”
    â€œIt’s private.”
    Angie stared at her. “Yeah, you only share it with your gazillion closest friends on the World Wide Web.”
    â€œI mean, no one I know in real life knows about my blogs. It’s just my way of sorting through my thoughts.”
    Angie turned away and sank down on the bed.
    â€œWhat?” Lilah asked. “Why are you looking at me like that?”
    â€œYou’re still my best friend,” she said softly. “But I don’t feel like I’m yours.”
    â€œWhat are you talking about? That’s crazy. Of course you’re my best friend.”
    â€œThen why are there so many things in your life you don’t share with me anymore? I know we don’t live in the same state anymore, but we’re both on the east coast. New York is only an hour by plane or three hours by train. I can see if you don’t want to invest in weekly long-distance calls, but if you’re bothering to write down the details of your life in a blog, you could have let me know. I could have kept up-to-date with you that way.”
    Lilah was mortified. “I’m so sorry, Ang. I didn’t mean to shut you out. I guess I’m one of those people that when things aren’t going so well, I don’t like to talk about it. I can share it with strangers because they don’t really know me.”
    â€œEver since the divorce I haven’t known which way was up. And even before then, Chuck required my full attention. I felt like I had an obligation to make my marriage my priority. You see how that worked out. Now, when I look around, I feel like all I have is so much wasted time.”
    Lilah moved over to join her friend on the edge of the bed. “I’m sorry I haven’t been a good friend to you over the last several years, Angie. I know it’s not good enough. But it’s all I’ve got.”
    Angie hugged her. “It’s okay. I just want to remind you that you don’t have to rely on a virtual world of strangers. I’m right here, and I always will be when you need me.”
    Lilah hugged her friend back, nearly choking on the emotions welling in her throat. The intense moment was instantly broken when her stomach released a loud groan of hunger.
    Angie laughed. “We never did get a proper dinner. I know a burger joint with twenty-four-hour delivery.”
    â€œReally? I love New York.”

    Tyler stared unseeing at his computer screen. It was nearly noon on Saturday and he hadn’t gotten much, if any, work done. Weekdays were for meetings and phone calls, but Saturday mornings, he liked to try to catch up on e-mails and light paperwork. Then he could have the rest of the weekend to himself.
    But today he couldn’t concentrate at all. His mind kept drifting back to Lilah. He felt like a jerk for taking advantage of a woman who had clearly been intoxicated. He should have pulled away from the kiss immediately, but she’d caught him off guard. But that didn’t give him an excuse.
    Tyler smacked his forehead as he did every time the embarrassment came flooding back to him. He could only imagine how she was feeling today.
    There was only one way for him to make things up to her. He had to give her what she wanted. A date with Reggie.
    If he knew his brother, and he did, Reggie would be in bed until something approaching three o’clock. Then, since he didn’t have any other appearances scheduled for the weekend, he’d hang out in his apartment playing video games until he went out clubbing with his boys