✤ Adrian ✤
After our bath, we cleaned up the bedroom before we headed downstairs to eat dinner. I understood that Sera was ready. I knew what that meant. Was I ready? Hell yes, I was. I was more than ready. But I also wanted it to be something special. Earlier, I had made a chicken pasta salad, so I dished us each a plate, and we sat side by side at the kitchen table. I listened as Sera told me all about her shift at the library, and I couldn’t help but smile.
“I still can’t believe you planned something so…special,” she said as she pushed her empty plate aside.
“Why? Did you think I was incapable of doing something special?” I teased as I stood up and cleared the table.
“No, it’s not that. I just…our situation isn’t the easiest,” she remarked, and I nodded in agreement. Our situatio
