Hayden said.“Me too.” Lyssa smiled.Hayden had flown into Chicago to celebrate their one-year anniversary, which they’d decided to define as the date on which they’d started kissing and never stopped. They sat in the same Old Town restaurant where she’d dined with Sean that fateful night.“You go first,” Lyssa said.“Okay. This is a good news/bad news kind of thing. Which one should I start with?”Lyssa scowled. “Anniversary surprises aren’t supposed to have bad things attached.”“Sorry, hun. This one does. So which will it be?”“The bad.”“I thought so. Well, the bad news is that my travel schedule is going to increase.”“By how much?” His current slate of business trips already put a dent in the amount of time they could spend together.“It’ll likely double.”“Oh.” She didn’t want to be unsupportive of his career, but there was no purpose in hiding her disappointment from him; he already expected it. “I think I need a shot of the good news now.”“The reason it’s going to increase is because I’ll have to spend one week a month in Boston.”
