Not long after Hannah moved in with him, however, she noticed that his growing success started to go to his head. He began craving the cameras more and more and expressing contempt for younger up-and-comers or more talented seniors who attracted larger crowds on the tour.

And then one day Rob went rogue – and did so without a thought or inkling of concern about what it might do to her career.

When he unexpectedly pulled her into a camera shot after winning a tournament at Torrey Hills and kissed her on national TV before muttering in her ear, ‘This is how you cause a stir,’ Hannah couldn’t believe he could publicly humiliate her like that. While there in attendance in a professional capacity, suddenly she was thrust into the spotlight and their relationship immediately laid bare.

Of course, it wasn’t a bad look for him; he craved the cameras and the headlines. But her ethics and professional integrity were soon under question. Rob was the talent, after all. He had nothing to worry about. He was the one who paid her for her services.

Soon the media – and worse, people in her industry – were making tongue-in-cheek comments about exactly what ‘services’ Hannah was providing. She’d endured the whispers, seen the disdainful looks from colleagues at the agency and felt the awkwardness when she walked into a room and all talking ceased.

She had never in her life felt so humiliated. So cheap and small.

Which was why she’d left LA for New York and a brand-new start where nobody would point and whisper. And taken a stand with Rob, telling him that she wanted to end it, stupidly believing that he’d admit to his mistake and find a way to rescue their relationship, to fight for it even.

But that hadn’t happened, so Hannah had had little choice but to assume that their time together meant nothing to him, that she meant nothing to him.

Buoyed and supported by Zoe, who to be fair had expressed from the outset that there was nothing about Rob Kendrick that couldn’t be fixed by a brick to the head, Hannah had vowed to move on, hold her head high, make a fresh start elsewhere and forget all about him.

She believed she had done that quite successfully too until recently, whereupon that pesky cat had inadvertently ensured that her ex knew her true feelings, and all the hurt and shame she’d endured in the aftermath.

And had promptly ghosted her after, all promises of a reunion while he was in New York for the tournament suddenly forgotten.

Yet, inexplicably here he was now in Courtney’s apartment, standing right in front of her.

Hannah put the flowers on a side table against the wall in the entryway.