I sat at the kitchen table, my laptop open in front of me, though I wasn’t really working. My eyes stayed fixed on the same paragraph I’d been pretending to read for the last ten minutes. The email from CoaKal lingered at the edge of my thoughts, but I’d decided to leave it for tomorrow. Tonight was supposed to be a quiet one—a rare moment to breathe.
The front door creaked open, and heavy footsteps followed. Luke’s familiar voice cut through the silence. “Anna, you won’t believe who I just ran into.”
I snapped the laptop shut, my brow furrowing as I turned to face him. “Who?”
“Ethan Caldwell.”
My heart skipped a beat, then stopped altogether. “What?”
Luke dropped his keys onto the counter, shrugged out of his jacket, and casually threw it over a chair. “Yeah, I saw him in town. Can y
