“It took you a lot of time to return, baby girl. I didn’t expect to be waiting for you so long,” said Maddox as I approached him with Cora following behind me. “Did you get everything you needed?” He stood in the foyer where the lights were dim as it was past midnight.
“Yes. I—we just stopped to eat something. I was hungry. Sorry for keeping you waiting.” I murmured under my breath while hearing Cora walk away from the foyer after giving him a smile.
“That’s alright,” His hand planted over my back and we turned to the stairs, “How you do feel now?”
“Better. Thank you.”
My thoughts were now consumed with the woman I had met in the shopping center. I couldn’t stop thinking about her, her words even though the conversation only lasted for a minute. It was odd to foist it upon Maddox a
