“Are you calling me petty?”
Serenity loosened her embrace and stood before him. She raised her hand to pinch his cheek and grinned. “Aren’t you? You’re always like this. You only think about your own feelings, but you never consider mine when you do the same things I do.”
“Name a time when I argued with you over something you did. Has there ever been a moment when our fights or cold shoulders weren’t due to your temper?”
Zachary found himself at a loss for words.
“I go out in the middle of the night because I have important matters to attend to.”
“I know, and that’s why I don’t let it bother me. I don’t get angry at you, much less question your choices.”
Zachary fell silent. In comparison to her, he realized he was indeed the more petty one.
“I left early to help my sister. I wasn’t doing anything to let you down. Plus, I told you the truth when I returned. Tell me, babe, was I really in the wrong?”
Serenity’s beautiful eyes bore into him.
If he dared to say she was wrong, she would make him sleep in the study for the next six months!
Zachary didn’t want to risk that.
It was completely natural for her to assist her sister.
Her sister’s breakfast diner usually closed around noon, yet Serenity got home just after nine, meaning she likely left the store around nine.
She also explained her reason for going out when she returned.
Zachary couldn’t claim she was in the wrong.
“You’re not wrong.”
He pulled her into his arms. “Seren, I just hope that when I wake up every day in the future, I’ll open my eyes to see you. It will make me feel incredibly happy and content to see you in the morning.”
“I want that too, but can you do…?”
“Is it?” Zachary found himself at a loss for words. Serenity stifled a laugh in his embrace. “If you can’t do it, it’s only natural that I can’t either.”