By the time her doorbell rang Gabriella had already set up the dinner table in her small apartment. It was not much but at least it was a place that she could call home. There was a lamb leg roasting in the oven and she had baked three kinds of pie. She smiled thinking that Hugh thought that she could not cook or she was bad at household work, but that was not correct at all. It might be true that she got take out most of the days and had a protein based diet to keep her stronger and faster and agile but she could cook very well and not many people knew that.
And today there was a special guest coming in who would be staying with her for the whole week. Her boss knew about her special circumstances and that was the reason that he had allowed her to take leave in the middle of such a cris
