VioletThe next two weeks were strange and wonderful. It was like I was in some alternate version of my formally boring life.
Shane seemed to be feeling better. There were still beer and chair days, but he was working out, helping around the house and he had cooked a couple more times, too. He even sent me flowers to the hospital. I came home to little trinkets from candy to teddy bears. He was in the mood for s*x these days, which as much as I tried to avoid, I couldn’t completely escape him for fear of raising too many questions.
Lalo and I found every opportunity that we could to spend together. He planned the most amazing, yet simple dates. One night we went to the home store and he bought some terra cotta pots, we brought them back to the cottage, lined them with aluminum foil and ma
