So I listened.

Chapter 3 — Once We’re Married

Nathan laughed.

Softly, comfortably, the laugh of a man relaxed in his mother’s kitchen with no idea anyone else could hear him.

“Almost,” he said.

“She’s nervous about the paperwork.

But once we’re married, she’ll do whatever I ask.”

Linda said something I couldn’t make out, lower, farther from the phone.