FALLING FOR MY BEST FRIEND'S FATHER
And sat in the bright, noisy, normal room, holding the knowledge that something had been built here tonight in the dark — quietly, without announcement, without either of them choosing it.
Something that had no architecture yet. No blueprint. No clean lines or calculated angles.
But it was standing. It was absolutely, irrevocably standing.
And the most terrifying thing, the thing Emma turned over carefully as Lily came back with the popcorn and the room filled with ordinary sound, was that Marcus Blake had built it too.
With his own hands. With his own words.
He had built it just as much as she had.
And he knew it.
Lines in the Sand:
Emma wasn't trying to listen.