(Sloane)
I woke up before Kieran.
The room was still dark. Early. I lay there for a moment thinking about what today was. The restraining order hearing. Rebecca had told me it would not take long. That we had everything we needed and the judge would see it clearly. I had believed her when she said it. I still believed her now.
That did not make it feel simple.
I got up carefully and went to the bathroom. Got dressed quietly so I would not wake him. By the time I came back out he was sitting up watching me.
"You should have woken me," he said.
"You don't have to come."
"I'm coming."
I did not argue with that.
We went downstairs. Maria had not been yet so I made coffee and we stood in the kitchen drinking it without saying much. Outside the morning was grey. The kind of grey that sa
