“Come in! Come in!” Ethan gestured Anna forward with a kind smile on his face, Anna cautiously stepped into the kitchen, she could feel the stares from the other cooks that were there to help him prepare dinner but it didn’t last long as everyone focused on what it was they were tasked with.
Her gaze drifted to the counter but she managed to pry her eyes away and instead returned Ethan’s smile.
She held out the basket she had carried all the way from the farm, “Diane had mentioned something about you liking the season’s first falling apples from the orchard…” Anna said sheepishly, not used to doing this sort of thing for anyone.
The apples were bright red and almost as shiny as jewelry, they smelled fresh and divine and Anna’s mouth had watered when she’d first spotted them but then her
