Lucien’s povI softened, just a bit, my hand finding her waist. “I’m sorry. I don’t like seeing anyone touch you like that.”She looked up at me for a moment, and whatever tension had been sitting in her shoulders eased. She leaned in and kissed me, slowly, and I felt the last of the anger drain out of me with it.“Okay,” she said when she pulled back. “I think we’ve sold enough for today anyway. How about we close up and go home?”That surprised me. Usually she was the one arguing to stay open, insisting she could squeeze in one more customer, one more sale.Seeing her be the one to suggest closing early… choosing to end her day for me, for us… settled something warm in my chest.“Whatever you say,” I said, smiling now, leaning in to kiss her again before Eli came running into the room, assignment paper flapping in his hand, already talking before he’d even fully entered.***We closed up the shop together, Eli narrating his school day in full detail the entire time, and made the sho
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