"Then I'll help." He said and we spent the next hour cleaning.
I wiped down the desk, sorted paperwork, emptied the trash, and cleaned the shelves while Jace vacuumed the floor and moved furniture so Derek could check beneath everything.
It was strangely comforting.
There was something reassuring about doing ordinary work after a day that had been anything but ordinary.
At one point, Jace found an old coffee cup behind a stack of paperwork and he held it up.
"How long has this been here?" He asked as I looked at it.
"Don't ask questions you don't want answered." I said and he laughed.
"That's disgusting." He said.
"You weren't complaining when you were drinking coffee out of it." I said.
"I didn't know it was ancient." He said and I smiled.
"Now you do." I said.
We finished clea
