NIRELLE
I had expected that we would go out for the movies, but then I knew it was a shaky bet. It would take a lot of work to make Lucien even agree to step out of the gates with me.
"I don't even know why I am shocked that there is a state-of-the-art movie theatre in the basement of your home," I say as we walk down the stairs.
I am trying to be brave. I have been locked so many times in the basement that claiming down there was giving me jitters, but I did not want to show it. I didn't want him to see how scared I was. It feels like I have been here only a few days, and everything I have ever known was exposed to this husband of mine.
He walks to the kitchen, and I follow his lead, and I can see the change of things in the atmosphere almost immediately. "We will have our lunch now,"
