#Chapter287

Comforted in knowing he intends to spend another one here after this. Our own little secret place to just be. Watch him stop me coming back here for a repeat.

“Showtime.” He smiles at me, before grabbing both our jackets, throwing them over one arm, and his keys from the table as he leads me to the door in commander mode. Pulling me with him while fastened in his grasp securely. Ready to face reality after our break from it.

Not just in relation to Santagato either.

After I shower in my bathroom and get dressed in my usual figure-hugging dress and sleek hair and makeup, I wander back...