A beep from her phone woke Valentina up. She opened her eyes, and turned to the side to see the lights on her phone screen on.
Grabbing the device, her eyes searched for the time first.
"8am." She yawned, searching through what the beep was for.
Her eyes stumbled on the message from Julien.
"Morning, sunshine. Please open the door," it simply said.
Her heart jumped, as she tossed the covers away from her body.
Different thoughts ran through her mind. She wondered if he was back.
That thought spurred a kind of paralyzing anxiety in her.
Where would he stay? Would they have to share a room seeing the apartment had just two rooms? And what about his words from earlier?
She walked to the door with these thoughts in her mind. But as she opened the door, her mind went blank.
"Bonjourmademoiselle." A man stood in front of her, holding out a bunch of roses and a cup of coffee towards her.
Her face contorted, perplexed by the gesture.
