Chapter 25

Adira

I stopped and got coffee and some fresh pastries and cut fruit, enough to share with the few others that I knew would be at Sebastian's office when I arrived though I knew I would be the only one eating the fruit. Sebastian drank his coffee the same way my brother did - black with three sugars and I wondered if it was a military thing. I couldn't drink it like that- I always had to have some milk in it - light and sweet.

I'd left Charlie at the apartment this morning as I'd been here before and felt comfortable enough to come on my own. I'd been doing that more and more recently. Sebastian was actually waiting in the lobby for me and greeted me with a big hug and a quick kiss on the lips before taking the food from me. We rode the elevators up to his floor and I greeted everyone along the way. We went to his office first were we each picked out a few pasteries and then he took the rest to their breakroom for the others to enjoy. I sat on the chair across from his enjoyi