RONAN
The morning after the faucet incident, I woke up feeling like the luckiest man alive. Iris was probably waking up with the same stupid smile I was wearing.
We're getting somewhere, Black said, and he sounded almost smug. Slowly but surely.
"Slowly is good." I replied.
You keep saying that, but you want to move faster.
"I want to meet my children. I want to wake up next to her instead of alone in this apartment." I sat up and ran a hand through my hair. "But I need to ease her into everything."
I called Virginia that afternoon, and she answered on the second ring.
"Ronan. How is it going?"
"Good. Really good. We had dinner and we kissed."
"Finally," I could hear the smile in her voice. "Kael owes me twenty bucks. He said it would take another month."
"You're betting on my l
