Alyssa had a wonderful dinner with Melanie and Brad. Their house was in the woods and it was beautiful. The food had been delicious. Melanie had already known Alyssa’s dietary preferences and prepared a lemon herb trout. Alyssa even took a second-helping despite her intent to watch her intake. With the way Dylan was feeding her, she’d end up with some love handles sooner rather than later.
If she lived to get love handles. Shaking her head of such morbid thoughts, Alyssa looked at Dylan who was driving them home.
“Thank you for asking Melanie to help,” Alyssa ventured hesitantly, noticing that Dylan had been grim for most of the night. She chucked it up to seeing Selene. Selene surely must have been his one true love.
Dylan’s jaw flexed before he spoke.
“Melanie said she’d look int
