There’s a bouquet of flowers - pink peonies and blue lisianthuses - sitting on the dining room table. Nothing attached to it. No name. Just a green ribbon keeping them from spreading out unceremoniously. Romance, prosperity, good fortune, appreciation and a life-long bond. It was a lot. There was a lot on these flowers, but they did all the talking she wasn’t able to do. Words were hard. Flowers made it a little easier.
The weight on his chest as he fingered the petals of the flowers was...insurmountable. Elliott heaved a sigh, then moved away from the bouquet to his door, hesitating.
Should he go to her? It was Angela. Of course it was Angela. Who else would it be? The typhoon had changed so much, and yet he was still at odds with how to approach it. How to approach her.
Not yet. Elliott pulled his hand away from the doorknob and went back to admire the flowers. Soon.












