Unexpected Happiness

Something shifted after the Palm Springs weekend. Even if we didn’t say it, even if we still hadn’t gone to HR, I could no longer deny we were a couple. I guess the truth was… I didn’t want to deny it. He was at my place every night and it was hard to imagine not having him there.

He appeared in my office early in the evening, the way he always did. His eyes drifted over my face in that way of his