Chapter 20. Check Up

"Hey, you're awake already? How are you feeling?"

Ian woke up the next day only to find the bed empty, last night he had said the word, and he had felt nothing but acceptance from her side. Somehow he knows that she was feeling the same, but didn't want to burden her with everything that was going on in her life already.

"Morning... coffee?" she asked him but getting the pot and poured him a black one already and set it beside hers for him.

Then she was back to making their pancake breakfast, last time she remembered that he liked them, so she wakes up early that day and tries to make him breakfast in bed.

But she fails to realize that he was a morning person, with his job he was always an early riser. She was trying to thank him for all that he had done for her, then obviously for his confession last night. Him saying that he loves her was the sweetest, and he was saying it as if he couldn't contain himself by blurting out the words in their most intimate mo