I paced the hall in front of the main door, wringing my hands until my fingers went funny and began to lose feeling. It had to be coming today; that’s what the delivery notification had said. My stomach rose and dropping in waves, buoyed with elation on second and sinking deep into trepidation the next – like going over a hill too fast in the car.
It had been a few weeks since Gideon had asked me to go see an Opera with him. Just thinking about how sweet and sincere he’d been, or about how handsome he had looked, left me as giddy as a school girl…and twice as pink in the cheeks.
I reached up to touch the mock-orange earrings. I’d been doing that a lot lately, unwilling to take them out even when they’d been uncomfortable to sleep in at first.
It was such a nice gesture that I knew th
