Chapter 76

Jake

I left her to get ready and do whatever she needed to do. I headed downstairs after dropping my bag in one of the spare rooms, I hoped this trip would resolve our issues but just in case it didn’t I didn’t want her to feel pressured into anything.

I checked with the cook that everything was ready, I had bought this place years ago, I’m not sure why I had never really used it but I knew when I saw it I had to have it, just like her. I guess I had been waiting to meet her to come here. The cook I’d arranged to make us some light bites, salads, pasta and a chocolate dessert that was to die for.

I had also asked for a few items to be dropped off here, I could see the house keeper setting out the candles around the garden along with tossing the rose petals into the large pool. I had planned for the pool to be filled with them so you couldn’t see the water, with candles in lanterns lighting the way.

I wanted tonight to be perfect, there was something I wanted to ask her a question I ha