Lena’s POV

Dinner was nothing like what I had expected as I had walked into Cole’s apartment braced for a tense moment that would be filled with him apologizing endlessly and the heavy silence that would follow each of his statements as I was most likely not going to have anything to say. I had also expected myself to sit down with my guard up, counting every wrong thing that could slip out of his trap and filing it carefully away as proof that I was right to not want to forgive him ...