Chapter 10
Lunch was quiet as Ava just played with her food. She ended up getting a to go up for the soup and one for her salad and the dessert Connor had gotten her in hopes to cheer her up. She carried the bag carefully back to the hospital "I'll see you at home later." She said once they reached the doors "I don't feel like going in. They will bring my car around, I'll be fine waiting." He kissed her head "Ava, I do wish you would tell me what's on your mind. Come up to my office, just for awhile. Please?" she sighed "ok, for awhile, though I don't see a reason too." She said as they walked down the hall "I do. I want you to tell me what is on your mind." She shook her head "if you are going to keep asking I'll just leave now and see you at home" he nodded "Just relax. Other than putting the furniture together anything you need before I come home?" he asked "Food?" she held up the bag "Just relax then you can go. Are you thinking of coming back to work?" she placed the food on his desk and sat down "yes, and I will next week. It will be good for me to get back into all this." She looked down at her phone "We can talk tonight, I have to go." She got back up and grabbed the bag "I love you." She said kissing him "I hear you every time you tell me that." She smiled leaving
Ava hated not telling Connor but she needed to wait. She needed everything before she talked to him. She looked at the clock "He must have stopped at the store" she said rubbing her stomach "let's see what is on the tv hmmm….." she turned on a movie and sat back with her tea to wait. She was almost asleep when she heard the key turn and Connors footsteps going to the kitchen. He learned a long time ago to enter quietly since she was often asleep on the couch she got up and went into the kitchen "figured you made a stop" she said sitting on a stool "I did, how are you feeling?" he asked looking at her "you look flushed, you warm?" he asked feeling her head "im fine" she batted his hand away. "I was covered up drinking hot tea and sleeping, not at once" he laughed as he finished putting everything away and started dinner. Ava got the plates and glasses down "Now that it's too cold to eat outside….we sit at the table now?" he shook his head "Im going to start a fire and we will eat their from now on." She looked at him "oh really?" he nodded going to start a fire and laid a blanket out on the ground
Ava sat with her water watching Connor add more wood before joining her on the floor "there is something I want to talk to you about." Ava said after a few minutes "I wanted to wait though and now that I have everything I can tell you." He nodded "and what would that be?" she handed him a folder "This is up to you, no hard feelings at all." She said as he opened the folder "You have already done so much…." She trailed off as a smile spread across Connors face "yes" he said "a thousand times yes"