Chapter 46
Faster than any of them would have believed possible, Gemma settled into the house, and Karl and Loretta settled into a routine. After a couple of weeks, her staying in his apartment on weekends and him visiting the old caretaker’s house a night or two during the week started to feel normal.
He caught himself wondering when they would pass from not knowing what was going on between them to figuring out what the next step was. Long-term plans he'd never imagined with anyone else drifted though his mind when he wasn't keeping such things under control.
One thing that never quite felt normal was smuggling Loretta and her repaired gyro-compass and Dragon in to visit patients on the weekends.
"Can you feel a difference in any of them?" Karl said several days into their experiment
