NATHAN HAD TO MAKE it up to Emily, but how? Just turn up at her home and apologize? No. It had to be bigger than that. The official grand gesture.
Not that he’d done anything in a past relationship that resembled anything close to a grand gesture, but he understood the merit behind it.
He made a few calls and found out it was Emily’s last shift at Eleanor’s House on Sunday. Despite his one week's notice, she seemed to have stretched the time to ten days.
Good.
He’d spent his adult life mourning his mother’s death and damning himself for being like his father. He’d been wrong and stupid.
He was done wallowing in self-pity.
It ended. Now.
He spent all week getting on top of his work and setting up a few days off for the following week. Assuming Emily forgave him, he was taking her awa
