I nearly dropped my coffee.
She nodded.
“I knew you’d never slow down on your own.”
“So this was planned?”
“Every bit of it.”
“You tricked me.”
“Absolutely.”
I couldn’t stop laughing.
Neither could she.
For several minutes we sat there laughing like children.
Then silence settled over the lake.
Peaceful.
Comfortable.
The kind of silence that only exists between people who truly love each other.
I looked at her.
The woman who entered my life after unimaginable loss.
