Simply Spoken

"I wanted to say it," he said. "Not because the clause required it. Not because the moment called for it. Just—" He paused. "Just to have said it."

"Yes," she said.

She reached across the island.

Her hand on his — not the other way around, which was how it had been in the kitchen when the double confirmation had arrived and he'd been the one to reach. Now her. The reversal. Not correcting anything