---Marie---
We got to our destination in the morning to find a Nate that didn’t look like he’d slept a wink. “Welcome in. Sorry, I just moved in, so things are a little messy still.”
I looked around at Nate’s immaculate room for the mess he was talking about. “Uh, you mean the box in the corner?”
Kate grinned then held up the box of croissants we brought for the occasion. “You hungry? I didn’t see you at training this morning.”
“Oh. No. I’m outside of my mandatory training years, so now I just go when I want to. I didn’t sleep well so I decided not to this morning. How was it?” He looked a little embarrassed, as if there was something wrong with his decision to skip training.
I groaned. “You made a good decision; the trainer was in a terrible mood. I’ve never done so many burpees in m
