Some moments in life arrived so quietly that they almost slipped past unnoticed.Others…They announced themselves before they even happened.
This was one of them.
⸻
Jude and Adrian were tucked away in their favourite corner of the library.
It had become theirs again over the last few years.
Not completely—Lucas still wandered in whenever he pleased—but often enough that Adrian had finally stopped calling it “occupied territory.”
Jude smiled to himself at the memory.
Adrian was reading through a business magazine, occasionally making quiet comments about acquisitions and market trends that Jude only half understood.
Jude had a medical journal open in his lap.
The room was peaceful.
Comfortable.
Home.
Then—
“DAD! DADDY!”
Lucas’s voice echoed from upstairs.
Both men looked up.
