Chapter 31

It was just as if they had never left. Everything was exactly the same.

Gabriel went back to work immediately they got out of the plane, leaving Tony to take her and the baby home. Back home, Grace wasn’t back yet, but Elliot was in and he was sitting in the living room when she came downstairs to make a bottle.

He was wearing the usual beach shorts he seemed to have a lot of and he was also wearing a grey sweatshirt.

“Hey!”

He called out cheerfully as he waved at her.

“Hey.”

Lori said shyly. She wasn’t totally comfortable around him yet. She was still a bit weary of him, especially with what Gabriel said about him.

She couldn’t avoid him though, they lived under the same roof, technically not in the same house.

“I heard you went on a trip. Canada.”

Lori nodded.

“Have you been?”

He shook his head.

“No. I haven’t. But I hear it’s cold this time of the year.”

“It is.”

“So what were you guys doing there?”

He persisted and Lori raised her eyebrow.

“Why are you so curious?”

She asked an