"You're awake."

The baritone voice came back as Tessa's footsteps came out of her room. Tessa thought Axel had gone to work, but he was still at the dining table with his little daughter.

"Hmm." Tessa just mumbled that she didn't know what to do. Because it felt, well, too foreign.

"Sit down, let's eat together." Axel stood up from his seat and pulled out a chair for Tessa to sit on.

Tessa was silent as Axel returned the sweet gesture that made her feel Dejavu. Instead of sitting in the chair Axel had prepared, Tessa chose to pull out a new chair for herself. This meant that she wanted...