# Read the first page of In Five Years by Rebecca Serle Read the opening of In Five Years by Rebecca Serle free, no signup. She wakes five years ahead, beside the wrong man. - Page: https://uncovered.ink/read/in-five-years-rebecca-serle - Genre: Love stories - Year: 2021 - ISBN: 9781982137458 - Read it blind (cover and title hidden): https://uncovered.ink/?b=9781982137458&s=read-page - Buy: https://bookshop.org/a/125786/9781982137458 - Borrow: https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=9781982137458 ## The opening Twenty-five. That's the number I count to every morning before I even open my eyes. It's a meditative calming technique that helps your brain with memory, focus, and attention, but the real reason I do it is because that's how long it takes my boyfriend, David, to get out of bed next to me and flip the coffee maker on, and for me to smell the beans. Thirty-six. That's how many minutes it takes me to brush my teeth, shower, and put on face toner, serum, cream, makeup, and a suit for work. If I wash my hair, it's forty-three. Eighteen. That's the walk to work in minutes from our Murray Hill apartment to East Forty-Seventh Street, where the law offices of Sutter, Boyt and Barn are located. Twenty-four. That's how many months I believe you should be dating someone before you move in with them. Twenty-eight. The right age to get engaged. Thirty. The right age to get married. My name is Dannie Kohan. And I believe in living by numbers. "Happy Interview Day," David says when I walk into the kitchen. Today. December 15. I'm wearing a bathrobe, hair spun up into a towel. He's still in his pajamas, and his brown hair has a significant amount of salt and pepper for someone who has not yet crossed thirty, but I like it. It makes him look dignified, particularly when he wears glasses, which he often does. "Thank you," I say. I wrap my arms around him, kiss his neck and then his lips. I've already brushed my teeth, but David never has morning breath. Ever. When we first started dating, I thought he was getting up out of bed before me to swoosh some toothpaste in there, but when we moved in together, I realized it's just his natural state. He wakes up that way. The same cannot be said of me. "Coffee is ready." He squints at me, and my heart tugs at the look on his face, the way it scrunches all up when he's trying to pay attention but doesn't have his contacts in yet. He takes a mug down and then pours. I go to the refrigerator, and when he hands me the cup, I add a dollop of creamer. Coffee mate, hazelnut. David thinks it's sacrilegious but he buys it, to indulge me. This is the kind of man he is. Judgmental, and generous. I take the coffee cup and go sit in our kitchen nook that overlooks Third Avenue. Murray Hill isn't the most glamorous neighborhood in New York, and it gets a bad rap (every Jewish fraternity and sorority kid in the tristate area moves here after graduation. The average street style is a Penn sweatshirt), but there's nowhere else in the city where we'd be able to afford a two-bedroom with a full kitchen in a doorman building, and between the two of us, we make more money than a pair of twenty-eight-year-olds has any right to. David works in finance as an investment banker at Tishman Speyer, a real estate conglomerate. I'm a corporate lawyer. ## Books with a similar feel - [Before I Met You by Lisa Jewell](https://uncovered.ink/read/before-i-met-you-lisa-jewell.md) - [Landing by Emma Donoghue](https://uncovered.ink/read/landing-emma-donoghue.md) - [The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibín](https://uncovered.ink/read/the-story-of-the-night-colm-toibin.md) - [Normal People by Sally Rooney](https://uncovered.ink/read/normal-people-sally-rooney.md) - [Seat Mates by Anna Harbom](https://uncovered.ink/read/seat-mates-anna-harbom.md) - [Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren](https://uncovered.ink/read/love-and-other-words-christina-lauren.md) --- Source: Uncovered (https://uncovered.ink). A short sample shown for reading and discovery. Rights holders can request removal at https://uncovered.ink/takedown.