Thirty Five

"I'm making lunch. I'll bring some over to the office later."

No! Damien wanted to yell this from his end of the phone call, but he bit his tongue and swallowed his words back. He didn’t want to offend her at all, and so he listened to Katherine call out the list of things she was considering making for lunch.

Even after he had made up his mind to tell her about the lunch disaster from the last time, he had forgotten, and yet again she was about to do the exact same thing for him.

After they made up the last time at his office, Katherine had been trying ever so fervently to bring things back to normal.

She was spending almost each night with him since that day, calling him, and leaving romantic messages that he barely replied to.

Their last dinner date had gone pretty well and Damien was convinced that she was over it all, maybe she outs give him some space now that he’d apologized but his hopes were short lived because now it seemed she was trying so hard, which he didn’t expect