Corinne by Morrow Rebecca

Author:Morrow, Rebecca [Morrow, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B09NTK6V48
Goodreads: 61313251
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published: 2022-07-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifty-one

Enoch pulled away.

Corinne sucked in a breath.

“Just a second…” he said, letting go of her. He stood up straight and pulled his arms up, arching his back. It made a painful crunching noise.

“You should try to fall in love with someone taller,” Corinne said.

Enoch smiled. “I’ll add that to the list.” He rolled his shoulders. He took off his glasses and looked down at his shirt—then reached for the end of Corinne’s soft cotton top to clean them. “You should try to find someone with more years left in him,” he said. “You missed my young and limber days.”

“You were never limber.”

He laughed a breath through his nose.

Corinne brushed his hair out of his face. He looked tired. He put his glasses back on.

“Could I have a glass of water?”

“Yeah,” she said. “I never gave you your tea. Do you want me to make you a new cup?”

“I’d like that.”

He leaned against the counter while Corinne got him water and put the kettle back on.

“I don’t want to fight in your kitchen anymore,” Enoch said.

“You want to fight in my living room instead?”

“I don’t want to fight at all…”

“I thought you said you wanted to be with me.” She dumped out the cold mug of tea.

Enoch rested a hand on the small of her back. “Does that mean fighting?”

Corinne tipped her head up at him. “Everybody fights. Even people who have it easy. And we … Well, we’re never going to have it easy.”

“But we can work some things out, right?”

“Agree on house rules, you mean?”

He smiled and rubbed her back. “Yeah…”

“We did agree on house rules, Enoch, and you immediately broke them.”

He winced. Too bad.

“What kind of tea do you want?” Corinne asked.

“Something with caffeine. I need to get it together before I drive home.”

Corinne opened up her cabinet. A box of tea fell out.

Enoch looked up. The whole cabinet was crammed with tea boxes. “Do you go to the grocery store and only buy tea?”

“Sometimes.” Corinne made him another mug of tea. Earl Grey. And one for herself. “Do you want milk and sugar?”

“Yeah.”

She added milk and sugar to both cups and walked into the living room. Enoch followed her and sat on the couch. He drank some tea. He picked up the bowl of chicken, cold now, and started to eat what was left.

Corinne watched him. “I missed you,” she said, so soft she could barely hear herself.

He smiled at her. “I missed you, too.”

“Don’t do that again.”

He stopped chewing. “I won’t.”

“I mean, if you need space, I guess you should take it. But it was so painful, not knowing whether you were going to call me—or whether you were going to come to your senses.”

“I thought I made it pretty clear that I wasn’t coming to my senses anytime soon.”

“I don’t even know what I’m asking,” Corinne babbled. “I know I can’t ask you to stay no matter what.”

Enoch set down the bowl. It was basically empty. He took Corinne’s hand. “You could ask me that…”

“Well…” Her chin was twitching.

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