Chapter 71
‘BABE, THAT WAS ONE delicious dinner, thank you,’ I said with a satisfied smile. ‘How about you read Bobby a bedtime story while I clear the table and do the dishes?’
‘Sounds good to me. And then we can go ahead with that thing we discussed,’ she said with a cheeky grin and a wink.
That was the signal! We were on for tonight. We had discussed me sleeping over for the first time and had agreed that we would only do it if Melissa felt right, if she were comfortable after we’d had dinner. And she’d just given me the green light that we were on for tonight. My heart skipped a beat as I stood there in the kitchen.
I felt conflicted, but the happiest I’d ever felt. I now cared more about someone else than I did for myself. My heart was full of love for Melissa and her son; I was r
