POV: Yessica | Location: Edinburgh
She had told him to bring nothing.
He brought nothing. She checked when she opened the door — no flowers, no gift, no anything that would make the moment into a production. Just Lewis in a grey jacket, hands in his pockets, standing on the Marchmont landing at two PM exactly.
"Come in," she said.
He came in.
Claire was in the sitting room with her blocks. She looked up when Lewis walked through the door and said: "You came," with the tone of someone whose logistical prediction had been confirmed.
"I came," Lewis said.
"Mama said you were coming at two," Claire said. "It's two."
"It is," he said.
"Good," Claire said. She went back to her blocks.
Lewis looked at Yessica.
She looked at him.
"Rose is in the small room," she said. "She's awake."
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