Chapter 20
AlexaI tested the limits of my sports car to get home. I showered at record speed, pinning my hair up in a plastic shower cap so I wouldn’t have to spend half an hour blow-drying it. I skipped redoing my makeup and threw on a T-shirt and jeans over a matching set of lace underwear in deep lavender.
The woman staring back at me in the mirror turned, posed, and declared herself ready for prime time.
When Graham knocked on the front door, my legs stiffened with nervous energy as I approached it slowly, breathing deeply.
I leaned on the open door. “Hey. What’s for dinner?”
Graham gripped the handles of the paper bag with two hands as he came in. “A steak and veggie dinner and a salmon and veggie dinner. I know you like to eat healthy. Take your pick.”
I bent closer to get a vi
