Mildred POV
Walking down the hallway, I was both fearful and nervous and excited, all jumbled up as one.
I did not know how to feel, I know, I wanted more than just quiet lunches and get to know your talks.
Although they were fun, I wanted more, and at the moment, I wanted to do it with Tobias, but I had no idea what that more entailed.
Reaching the door, I watched him place his hand on a square pad and heard a click, this was it, I could feel it in my bones, this room would be the start of a whole new life, but, as yet, I still had no clue what it could be, what he was hiding down here, out of sight for the average person, a place in his sanctuary, for him alone.
Tobias waited by the door, looking down at me, waiting for something, a sign or for me to change my mind, when he said l
