♥ Brendan ♥
I was looking forward to spending another weekend with Alice. We had talked over the past week, but I had a feeling Alice had made a decision. I wasn’t sure what it was, but I just knew that it was going to change things. What things, I wasn’t sure. Driving to Rockland, I felt the way I always did. Irritated and annoyed to be returning to the town I had left behind. Excited and happy to be returning to Alice. By the time I turned toward her cottage, I was already exhausted. The trip alone always took so much out of me. My jaw hurt from all the clenching, and my hands were stiff from the tight grip on the steering wheel. The cottage glowed at the end of the quiet street, and even though the porch light was on and the fairy lights danced, I was nervous. I parked and forced mysel
