With his hands in his pockets, Stephen stared at the floor before looking at Holly and saying solemnly, “I really am sorry; about working you so hard, keeping you from having a social life, calling you at two a.m….everything.”“How could you know that it was bothering me if I never said anything? I’m as much to blame in this as you are. Sort of,” she looked at him through veiled lashes and grinned. “You are definitely to blame for the two a.m. thing, though.”“Agreed.” Seemingly satisfied at the exchange of words, Holly went about straightening the office up before telling Stephen that she was tired and was going to go to bed. “I’m going to go and grab my gym bag so that I have a change of clothes for the morning but if you don’t mind, I’d like to borrow another t-shirt to sleep in.” He agreed and they left the office; Holly went down the hall and grabbed her bag while Stephen went upstairs to get a shirt for her. They met at the top of the stairs.“Here you go. Is there anything else that you need?”“There was the chocolate rumor…” When he turned to go down the stairs, Holly reached out and stopped him.“Stephen!”
