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I smiled at him.
He smiled at me.
When he arrived, I tipped my head back.
And he kissed me.
* * *
Him…
“This is so perfect,it’s like it was made for this space,” Elsa declared, standing back, looking at her new dandelion couch sitting in its place.
She was right.
And the orange media center worked great too. Both of them changed the entire vibe of her pad, which had already been awesome, but now it seemed more…her.
Daring.
Bold.
Alive.
The new furniture was in, the old sofa was out, and Elsa had invited Gemma and Jadyn to hang for a glass of wine before they left, and they’d accepted.
“Where did you get these toss pillows?” Gemma asked, fingering the fabric on one.
“My neighbor makes them custom from old scarves or embroidery,” Elsa told her.
“I need you to get me in touch with her. We need to sell those in the shop,” Gemma decreed.
Elsa smiled. “I’ll talk to her. Maybe we can all meet for a coffee, do an intro.”
“Perfect,” Gemma replied.
“Speaking of,” Jadyn put in. “You two probably already have plans, but we’re having a get together tomorrow. No reason outside Gem likes to cook for people. It’d be cool to have you two at our table.”
He knew from Elsa’s glance she liked this couple, as did he, and she wanted to go.
“We’ll be there,” Hale said.
Jadyn looked surprised, but through it, he smiled.
Elsa didn’t look surprised, but he liked her smile better.
* * *
Although their storewas in Chelsea, Jadyn and Gemma’s home wasn’t far from Elsa’s, the bottom floor of a brownstone that had been broken up into apartments.
Unsurprisingly, it was filled with fantastic furniture.
And you could tell Gemma liked to entertain. Their dining room table was massive, the food on it was delicious and plentiful, and the bodies sitting around it were many.
“Regentrification for us doesn’t mean the same thing,” Jadyn was saying on the topic they were discussing. “It means get the fuck out. And our people have been here for over a century. This is home.”
They were talking about their neighborhood in Brooklyn being regentrified.
“I get that,” Hale said.
