Sarah returned to the living room with a steaming cup of tea. She sat down and was immediately drawn into Lucas’s arms as he encouraged her to snuggle against him. Zoe knelt at the coffee table coloring. Up until a few minutes ago she had been enjoying the quiet after-dinner talk between her parents and Alan and Kyle. Once Kyle started yawning it was the signal for the pair to depart heading out to Alan’s hotel room in town.
“I don’t see why they had to leave,” Sarah said after a moment. “Especially to a hotel. All of Kyle’s stuff is still here.”
“I didn’t know he lived with you,” Lucas said.
“He didn’t, doesn’t,” Sarah explained. “He lost his apartment right before our trip to New York. He agreed to house sit for me while I was gone. It was only supposed to be a couple of weeks, not a
