When Burke didn’t show up on the bench outside the Petals & Leis administrative offices for a third day in a row, he knew his father would come find him. He ran at a punishing speed, Ash’s words on a loop in his head.
Figure things out. Figure things out.
He had no idea how to do that. And she hadn’t shown up for their morning run for the third day in a row.
So he ran, and he ran far and long and hard.
When he made it back to his condo, one step through the door told him his father either was there or had been there.
“There you are,” he said, confirming that he was still on the premises. He came around the island in the kitchen fully, a cup of coffee in his hand that he’d obviously made while he waited for Burke to show up.
It was fine. Burke hadn’t cooked in his kitchen in a very lo
