(Lena)
The house looked different with strangers walking through it.
I had expected Saturday to feel significant. It did, just not in the way I had anticipated. The hard part had already happened. This was just the paperwork catching up.
Cole put his hand briefly on mine before we got out.
He didn't say anything.
He didn't need to.
Steven was already there when we arrived, standing at the front door with the couple, a man and woman who looked to be in their mid thirties, both of them looking up at the front of the house the way people did when they were already picturing themselves inside it.
Steven introduced us.
Their names were Daniel and Sophie and they shook hands warmly and said all the right things about the property and I smiled and said all the right things back.
Cole sta
