Benjamin arrived shortly after I got to talk with Lily and, to my surprise, takes a seat at the table directly across from Seth. They don’t seem to be speaking much.
Lily comes up behind me and hands me two cups of coffee. “Why don’t you take this to Benjamin and join them?”
“Thanks,” I tell her, taking the offered mugs from her and walking over to them. I walk over and sit beside my mate, handing one of the mugs across the old, wooden picnic table to Benjamin.
He looks up at me with a small, unsure smile. “Thank you, Molly,” he tells me, taking a sip. “So, you decided to camp out here last night?”
“Yeah,” I say, staring down into the cup of black liquid warming my hands.
Seth squeezes my thigh under the table and, thankfully, speaks up for me. “Molly realized that there’s qu
