Graceful Surrender

THE RESTAURANT WAS BUSTLING as Sloane and Ronan sat across from each other. Her heart was pounding. She hadn’t expected him to contact her yesterday, asking her to meet him here. She was angry and broken-hearted because of what he did to her, but it was comical how she forgot all of that just because he reached out to her first.

“Should we order first?” she asked, somehow nervous. It’s not like th