HIS BY MISTAKE
I followed him to the kitchen more out of surprise than actual hunger, watching him move around the space with the same quiet competence I’d seen that first awkward morning weeks ago, pulling out eggs, bread, whatever simple thing he could put together at this hour without waking Marta.
“You really don’t have to do this,” I said, settling onto one of the stools.
“I know.” He cracked an egg into the pan without looking up. “I want to.”
I didn’t have a response to that, so I just watched him instead, the quiet, careful way he moved through his own kitchen, still in his wedding clothes, sleeves rolled up, doing something as ordinary as making toast at two in the morning for a wife he’d married