Chapter 4Saturday evening.
The sounds of sizzling veggies filled the kitchen alongside the familiar and comforting tap, tap, tapping of Royce’s typing. Jack smiled as he minced some garlic. It’d been a good day. Nice. Sunny, neither cold nor warm. They took a walk earlier. Carefully, of course. The new normal. Or however close something could be to normal when it was abruptly so different.
Jack had been making the best of things and worked from home. Weekly meetings over Zoom and conference calls and Royce bent over his desk while he did his very best not to moan too loudly. A thought that brought another smile to Jack’s face.
That smile was chased away when Royce suddenly let out a frustrated cry and slammed the laptop closed. Jack glanced over his shoulder just in time to catch her sh
