Callan strove to dissemble his edginess as he stood in front of Orla with a tray in his hands. He had chosen to prepare scrambled eggs and sablefish in hopes that she would love them.

He was certain of the fact that she must have eaten scrambled eggs a couple of times, but he knew for a fact that she had never had something as good as this and the mixture he just thought up.

Orla was enthusiastically positioned on the dining chair, one of her eyes ceaselessly studying Callan. She could ...