Chapter Seven
Caleb
There was an edginess to Ella, a restless, heightened quality. Looking at her across the table, all I could think was it was so damn good to have her back home. We were just finishing dinner, and it had been the longest period of uninterrupted time I’d had with her since I could recall. Her brown hair fell in a tousle around her shoulders. Her cheeks were flushed slightly, the green of her eyes standing out. I could’ve looked at her for hours, if only because for the first time in way too damn long I had the opportunity to do so. Maybe, just maybe, we’d get a chance to write a different ending for ourselves this time.
I wasn’t kidding myself. In between the time since I saw her at the hospital after her minor car accident and then again the other night, I’d shifted g
