"The boss first, definitely." Debi nodded at Padma's assistant. "He's a writer, and I was big fan of his books. I moved here and got a job as his assistant, and when I moved into my new flat, there was this fellow who lived downstairs..."
She thought back to that first flirtation, then the first date, the first time they'd made love -
"I probably would have stayed anyway, but after I met my husband, well, that sort of settled it." He seemed friendly, poor thing, and she wondered what exactly "away for a while" meant. "What about you? You don't sound like you're Scottish."