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He kissedrid of me that easily”

I grinned at hi and asked, “Is that going to be breakfast?”

He , ceramic bowl and covered it with a blue dish towel, then moved it to the counter as he said, “No, that still has a few hours to go I baked some brioche for breakfast”

“You must have been up for hours”

He wiped his hands on another dish towel as he said, “I woke up at dawn and couldn’t get back to sleep I’ve had a lot on my mind”

“Like what?”

“Like where we’re going to live, and what I’ from my current line of work”

“Wouldn’t we live here?” Just then, I noticed ht where he’d see it as he orking, and exclaiot rid of that!”

“No I just ht you’d find it aard to wake up to it,” he said “As for your first question, you shouldn’t have to live in a fortress, or a place designed to suit only me We need to either find or build a home for the two of us”

“I’d love that”

“Good Then we’ll start looking right away”

I leaned against the work table and took his hand “Are you really retiring?”

He nodded “It’s inevitable to iven what I do, but it’s not just about me anymore It’s about us, and I don’t want my bad decisions to affect you” He kissed eneral direction of the refrigerator and asked, “Are you hungry? I should get breakfast started”

“Not yet There’s so we need to do first” I tried to look very serious as I said that

“What do we need to do?”