Chapter 52
Gabriel
I don’t want to be here, not because I don’t like the company, but because this feels like the kind of place that’s far too intimate for two people who are just friends. If I had known that this is where I’d end up tonight with Bethany, I would’ve asked her to change the location. This is not the place I want to be with anyone other than the one woman I’ve been planning on getting back into my life, my home, and my arms.
“Would you relax? You look like you want to be anywhere but here,” Bethany says as she straightens the utensils on the table. I’ve seen her do this at every single breakfast, lunch, and dinner we’ve had together. Even the times we’ve taken her son to fast food restaurants, she would fix the napkin, the paper cups, anything that looked even slightly ou
