Chapter Twenty Four
Despite what she’d said, and a lingering ache in her shoulders, the afterglow of Ever’s experience with Stroud and Brooke lasted for several days. The memory of it drenched her in frequent waves of delight and amazement.
She was thinking about this and about how much her life had changed as she stood at the sink in Stroud’s kitchen, scrubbing leftover creamed egg from the bottom of a stainless steel saucepan. She worked at the task with concentration, thoroughness and serene patience.
The mundane chores of daily living that had become so difficult during those last days at her apartment were no longer the exhausting burden they had been. Now they were just part of the delicate network of details that made up the ongoing pleasure of her current life. She knew her happ
