Forbidden Never Felt This Good
A genuine, warm, privately amused smile that sat on his face like it had been waiting for the right moment to arrive.
"What?" I said.
He said nothing. Just kept smiling, which was somehow worse.
"Papa. Why are you smiling like that?"
He exhaled slowly, the smile tipping into something that was almost a laugh. "Pierre Beaumont."
"Yes."
"You met him at a supermarket."
"With a cart. I hit him with a cart, technically."
Now he did laugh. Short, quiet, but genuine, the kind that costs him something physically these days and he spends anyway. "Fate has a very specific sense of humor," he said.