Page 110 of Change My Mind
“Hey,” she said softly on a breath as I reached the table.
“Hey, yourself. How was work?” I asked as I pressed a kiss to her temple, my eyes catching on the mark I left on her collarbone. That was very visible. She was definitely going to make me pay for that.
She groaned. “Today justfeltlike a Monday. But my last tutorial of the day garnered some interesting discussion, and I managed to sneak five hundred words onto the thesis. I also have a bunch of essays to mark. What about you?” Addie asked us both.
“As of about twenty minutes ago, I finished my draft for this book, so I’m feeling lost,” Clara answered.
“Wait, is that what you’ve been doing here?” I asked.
Clara nodded. “I find that Vivi’s is always the best place for me to finish anything.”
“Well, that calls for a celebratory meal! What do you want? I can probably make it.”
Clara’s eyes narrowed. “Do you not have actual menu items to cook? I think Dad might be mad if you start going off-menu just as the place starts getting busy for the night.”
“Have you forgotten who your dad is? If I start making something off menu and he catches me, the nanosecond I tell him it’s for his girls, he’s leaving me alone.”
“He’s got a point,” Addie said.
“Could you make a carbonara?” Clara asked hopefully.
I ran through the kitchen inventory, and yeah, I could cobble together a carbonara or two for them.
“Yeah, sure. Same for you, Ads?”
She smiled. “If you wouldn’t mind.”
I bent down and kissed her again. “Never.”
Addie entered the kitchen silently.If it hadn’t been for the fact that I saw the door between thedining room and the kitchen swing shut, I probably would have had the shit scared out of me when she wrapped her arms around my waist and hooked her chin over my shoulders.
“You’re not allowed back here,” I teased as I finished wiping down the counter.
“I know the owner,” she whispered.
I spun around and placed my hands on her waist. She moved her arms up and rested them on my shoulders, her fingers instantly threading through my hair.
I hummed. “Ah, well, that’s okay then.”
She smiled. “I think it will be. You done yet?”
“Yeah, just got one more counter to wipe down and then I can lock up.”
“Dad and Clo are still here, something about wedding catering. They’ll lock up.” She kissed my nose.
“Are we catering their wedding?”
“I think it’s currently up for discussion. Don’t need to worry yourself with that one just yet. They’re just talking about it. I should warn you, while Clo is in her ‘I don’t need to be writing a book’ phase, she is going to get very intense about wedding planning, which may impact us both.”
“Thank you for the heads up.”
She scratched my scalp. “The first order of business is going to be how many people they have in their wedding parties.”
“Oh?”
Addie hummed. “Clo comes in at four. Jesse doesn’t have that many; he only has two brothers and one friend he would consider, which leaves him one person down.”
“Could they not just have one each?”
