Actually, Lucia wanted to retract her hand away instinctively. However, when she saw the excited Gabriel chattering away about the things to buy and what to eat and drink, she didn’t have the heart to break up his good mood.
She looked down and saw his hands tightly around hers. His grip was extremely tight, and his palms were sweaty. In fact, he must be nervous, too. She didn’t reject. She left it as it was with him doing the talking, and she listened; and when she talked, he would listen.
As they were doing the shopping, they realized they had really bought a lot of stuff; putting the vegetables aside, they were running out of rice, so was the oil, and there was meat, too. Rainy said she wanted to eat braised meat. In the past, finances at home were always bad. So she could only cook m
