He hated to leave, but he’d not meant to drink quite so much, and his wife was waiting for him. With another wish to Miles on a birthday (he still needed to get him his gift), and telling Cass and Terence good bye, a part of him was glad to leave. He felt old suddenly, drinking till such a time of night, instead of going to bed.
What happened to the days they stayed up till the wee hours plastered and finding women? Maturity, he decided for a split second was overrated- even as Verity’s face came across his vision.