“Change!” That’s the greeting I got when I met him on the stairs landing as soon as I walked out of the bedroom. I guess he’d left sometime before I woke up to go back to his room to get cleaned up. Since I now saw him through new eyes, his beauty was not lost on me. Not that he wasn’t always hot, but now there was an added sparkle in his eyes that I hadn’t noticed before.

I also saw his gruffness in a whole new light. It no longer seemed to come from a place of annoyance, ...