Chapter 95 A Little Distance

• GENESIS
• I skipped over to the kitchen with a smile on my face while those words replayed in my head. I could not stop smiling, no matter how much I tried to. He was really changing, I was really seeing the changes, they were not just words or promises anymore, he was really doing them, he was keeping his word and doing so much more than I thought he would ever do. I had every right to smile, or have my cheeks heated up. But even as I had all the happy and butterfly feelings running from my head down to my toes, I also had to be cautious of the way my heart fluttered for him, the way I wanted to take a closer look at him and the way he always held me. I had to be very careful of that more than anything else, because I already knew that his heart belonged to someone else. Someone who wasn’t me, a woman he had loved for years. I could not easily take that away and I was not willing to do that. But in order to not get my heart broken, I had to be careful, really careful.
• “You look lost in thought?” a gentle hand on my shoulder jerked me. Anna was staring at me with concern and I smiled at her.