When There Is Nothing Left But Love

“Sure. What’s up?”

“Can you send me the address of the company? I’m bringing lunch for Armond today. By the way, I can’t enter the office without an appointment, right? So you’ll need to come downstairs and get the food from me when I arrive!”

“Sure!” I was just thinking about what to get for lunch. “Armond has gastric problems, and they’re flaring up now. If you could bring along some gastric medication, that’d be great!”

I heard her cackling laughter through the receiver. “Leave it to me. I’ll be there in half an hour.”

I hung up and finished preparing the milk. Linda showed up at the pantry to get some coffee, looking exhausted.

I couldn’t help but ask, “Linda, did you have a rough night?”

She took a deep breath and nodded. “School’s starting in a couple of days. My daughter hasn’t completed any of her assigned work, so I’ve been up the past few nights making sure she finished them properly! Really, women shouldn’t have kids at all. They’re adorable when they’re still young but become absolute nightmares when they’re older! Here, look at my wrinkles. There are so many extra ones now!”

She moved her eyes closer to me and pulled on them dramatically.

I burst into laughter. “How old is your daughter?”

“She’s entering third grade soon. I’m telling you, you can never run out of things to worry about them!”

“My daughter’s entering first grade soon!” I replied on instinct as I thought of Summer. Though judging by Summer’s nature, I probably won’t be the only one worrying about her.

startled her. “You have a daughter? Wait, are you

grew. “I’ve been married for almost ten

launched into gossip mode. “Then what’s going on between you and

explained, “He’s just my boss. We seem familiar with each other because we’ve

are hardly approachable by

couldn’t think of a suitable response and left with

He was still reviewing documents as I walked in. I

can. So he ate the sweets after all.

heard me. His gaze fell on the glass of milk on the desk. Frowning, he said dismissively, “I

a little bit of milk. It’ll help to

shook his head adamantly.

paused for a moment and stared at me.

I shook my head.

to bring the milk away. I pursed my lips and retorted, “Even if you don’t normally drink milk, a little bit right now

didn’t wait for his reply and

should come here ASAP. I spy a hottie here. He looks like an absolute

up and hurried downstairs. She ran towards me when she saw me and pushed the lunchboxes into my

I prepared lunch for both you and Armond. Don’t tell him I made it, or he might not eat it. I’m