Maybe I could get a few minutes to myself later to try to work out exactly what was wrong with me, but for now I had a big, ex-shaped problem to deal with first.

“Maybe we can pretend all of that didn’t happen and start over,” I offered. ‘Say yes,’ I pleaded in my head. Because I was starting on a spiral into a big WTF world and I desperately wanted to stop. I was not tall enough to ride this ride for long. I would absolutely fly out of the car.

He rubbed his hand over ...