Chapter 42: Date & Spice
Chapter 42
The house felt too quiet.
For once, there was no excited chatter about cartoons, no messy leftovers lying around, no running up and down the hallway—it was peaceful. The twins were out with Mathew for a weekend playdate. Although Katherine loved every minute with them, she wasn’t going to lie—this silence was nice. A rare kind of peace she hadn’t had in a long time.
Inner peace—but the peace didn’t last long when there was Aaron Knight somewhere, trying to take every opportunity he saw to be with Katherine.
"The kids are out, let’s go and enjoy ourselves," Aaron had said over the phone, his voice cool yet laced with anticipation. He was requesting, unsure if Katherine would be willing.
Katherine didn’t reject him. She didn’t have the energy to listen to his sulking, and maybe... maybe a small part of her didn’t want to. She wore a soft cardigan over her dress, something simple and comfortable, and met him downstairs outside her apartment, where his car was already waiting, humming quietly.
Katherine shook her head looking at him. She’d told him about his wife—well, there was no need for her to because she wasn’t having an affair with him. There were boundaries.
She was just doing this for her children.
Are you? A snarky comment echoed in her head.
Both of them didn’t speak much on the drive to the local cinema, yet the silence in the car wasn’t awkward. It was peaceful—each of them lost in their thoughts.
When they arrived, Aaron got down and opened the door for Katherine, to which she rolled her eyes.