Friday brought rain again.
Aurora woke to the sound of it against her window and lay still for a moment, listening, before she remembered what had happened the night before. Damian's voice saying I love you in the quiet of the study. Her own answer given without a single second of hesitation. She smiled into her pillow before she even opened her eyes properly.
She came downstairs to find him already in the kitchen, dressed for the office, his coffee half finished.
He looked up and the smile that crossed his face was different from any she had seen from him before. Open. Unguarded. A man who had said the true thing and had not regretted it once in the hours since.
"Good morning," he said.
"Good morning," she said, and crossed the kitchen and kissed him simply because she wanted to and
