Chapter 6
“Oh! What are you doing here, Banner?”
Seemed I wasn’t the only one who refused to call him by his preferred name. My mother pulled him into a hug before he could answer. Then she stepped back, fresh tears pricking her eyes as she glanced over her shoulder at me. “Are you two going somewhere?”
“Yeah, um…” Pausing to try and come up with a good reason for him showing up at our house, I licked my lips. My eyes flicked to his, where he smirked from his position in the doorway. Then they widened at the sight of flowers in his hands and my breath caught in my throat. Why had he thought it a good idea to bring me something like that when we were trying to keep us a secret for a while? “Um…well, you see…”
Banner must have seen my panic because he cleared his throat and caught my mot
