chapter 22

Barlion Great....

Looking across from my desk, I saw the pure reaction my wife was having to the news.

Her captivating, bright, frost blue eyes widen. Her shoulders tensed and she leaned a bit closer to the table.

"My parents sent me a letter?" She asked and I could hear the excitement in her small voice.

The thick close covering half of her face would usually muffle her soft voice to the point that it made it hard to hear her. But this time around, her voice was a bit higher, pushing past the cloth.

"Yes." I answered simply with a nod. "They did."

Picking the letter up from my desk, I handed it to her.

Seeing her hands shake while she reached out to accept boggled me. How can one get this excited to hear from one's parents?

It hadn't been that long since they last saw each other. Surely it is impossible to miss a person this soon.

Frost looked dow at the paper and then back at me.

"You opened it?" She asked.

Of course I had opened it. I tried to talk myself out of opening a l