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Chapter 6 The Ice Cream Promise
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forgot how to breathe with him around. By now, I had mastered
ing in the living room on a Saturday morning with a book o
!" Vivienne's voice r
ed softly. "Give me two
is weekend,"
y. I'm a man of m
ned it right side up. Naturally, they were going out without me. I told m
he doorway with his car ke
aid, much
you c
peared behind him, and her smil
Adrian sa
er arms. "It's su
family," he replied
ra and Vivienne glared at me a
closing my book. "I d
he said. "Come on, Ele
should ha
e my brain could catch up
led her eyes so hard I was surprised they did
Adrian while Clara and I sat on opposite ends of the back. Vivienn
wheel, then forced myself
shop was small and bright, with pi
drian asked quietly w
ine," I sa
the questio
then blurte
an eyebrow
vanilla?" I asked
s just very s
safe,"
red across his f
voice. "You sure you don't want to
I'm sure vanilla is
laugh. "Okay. One very dan
eir cones to a table by the window and left two seat
ty table in the corner, our
y committed to
I replied. "It's
t hate you
ing him a look that s
th great enthusiasm," he a
ft and surprised. It was the first time I had laughed
hough he was satis
" I asked, genu
use it much," he sai
to," I said, giving him a f
ened. "How are you
e given him the polite answer I gave Victo
Like everyone already knows how
s," Adrian said. "They
survived?" I aske
g back. "My parents died, and Uncle Victor took me in. The girls were
I said. "I
ging, but his eyes didn't match the shru
atched the twins when he t
your famil
people. They've just
e of it," he said, like
lfway to my mouth.
obody marries into this house in days
he was being kind, or whether I ought to
d gently. "I won't as
nk y
r n
we were just two ordinary people eating ice cream on a S
ot some,"
hat?" I
t he meant, his thumb brushed the corn
t, neither
d for one long second, the whole shop, the music a
and back as though h
cone. She wasn't smiling now. She looked like someo
in films, and I slid my arms into it without meeting his eyes. His
a scrolled through her phone. Adrian drove with both hands on the wheel and s
n my pockets and my heart doing s
gers touched somethi
n from the shop, wrapped in a napkin. Ther
try somethin
t, I stoppe
ifted to the mirror and met mine. He
fist aroun
first bin we passed. I was a married woman, and he was my husband's nep
, opened the drawer of my dressing ta
rawer quietly, as i
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