CHAPTER 23
I WOKE UP, DRESSED, and put on the coffee. I made myself some toast and was pouring myself a cup of coffee when Cindy came in wearing sweat pants and a tee shirt. God, she looked beautiful.
“Coffee?” I asked.
“Please,” was her response.
I poured her a cup and brought them both over to the table. I shared a piece of toast with her and neither of us had much to say. It was the first time we had sat with each other with nowhere we had to go. It felt weird.
Cindy got up and said, “I am going to shower and get dressed,” and left the room.
I got up and went to the sink and started washing out the coffee cups, when out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw something move outside through the window in the side yard. I turned my head and looked but saw nothing. All my instincts w
