~ Past separated them, now pain will bring them together.~
A teenager Sofia Hayden, experiencing her falling apart family isolated herself slowly from everything that she held dear, especially from her best friend Max Wilder who had just realized hi...
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Arms crossed on her chest and a satisfied smile gracing her lips, Sofia looked on at her diner extended to the outdoors. It had been open now since this evening, and some customers already had coffee and snacks. All of them seemed to be enjoying settling outside in the refreshing evening breeze. That was a good start, she believed.
They had also gotten some more catering orders for a couple of business parties and a wedding anniversary today. She was looking forward to leaving her mark on all of them. Giving examples of splendid work was the best sort of advertisement. But it was not easy. Secretly, her nerves were all over the place.
Her mind drifted back to this morning when she'd woken up alone in bed. Never had she ever felt so disappointed in waking up to loneliness. It had strangely felt like isolation finding the vacant spot near her feet, where Max had fallen asleep last night.
But, the very next moment came as a surprise, as her eyes fell on the pillow next to hers. She could clearly remember putting it beneath Max's head, but somehow it was now resting next to her own pillow and looked slept on. There was an evident dent on the pillow. Also, the empty side of the bed—the sheet was rumpled there as if someone had slept by her side and had stealthily sneaked away before she woke up. Not feeling disturbed by it. However, Sofia shocked herself by leaning in and inhaling a lungful of his familiar scent from the pillow. Her temporary husband was sly, alright.
A car smoothly pulled over at the side of the road behind her, where she stood by the fancy fence at the perimeter of her extended diner.
Sofia sighed. Not even turning back, she could tell who it was.
Firm thuds of footsteps approached her with long strides, and the spellbinding scent of the familiar cologne surrounded her again. She inhaled a long breath while trying badly to hide a different kind of smile that began spreading on her lips.
How could a person smell so good even after a whole day in the office? One of these days, she was so going just to ask him straight off!
"So," Max began conversationally. "You've expanded Mary's, I see."
Sofia lifted her shoulders into a soft shrug and glanced at him sideways. "I guess so."
"And you've launched the catering business as well."
"Um, hmm," she hummed in response.
"And it's running quite nicely too."
"Looks like it."
"Good to know my wife's on her way to becoming a successful, big-shot businesswoman. Do you have plans on making it more large-scale and getting some investors?"
There was just something in the way he referred to her as his wife each time that made her lose focus on everything else and hold onto how those words sounded coming out of his mouth.
