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“Griff is so good with Aaron,” my mom says out of the blue, as if she’d just taken a little trip through hts I startle and send her an incredulous look, but she ignores etting really attached to him”

“So a up

She pulls out a serrated bread knife Using a tea towel to hold over the hot bread, she starts to cut slices “What’s he going to do, do you think?” she asks

I pick up the sliced radishes, then distribute the a few paper towels from the dowel in front of me, I wipe my hands dry “I don’t know He has to report back to DC next week”

My mom turns my way “Will he be medically cleared by then?”

I shrug “I suppose”

If the way he perforht is any indication, he’s fit for duty Sure, he still has a stitched-up wound under his collarbone, but he ht limitation in other ways I had to burymy mom and son that Griff is most definitely on the mend

“Well, it will be nice to figure out what your new nor to be,” she says

Yes, it would I’ll be starting back to work to withthe extra time with Aaron when he’s home from school, I do miss my crew at Jameson and the e do

Noe can just figure out exactly what our future holds, Griff and I would be able to settle into that new normal my mom mentioned

It’s not that we haven’t talked about our future together… because we have

A lot, actually