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Beth.”
    “You’re welcome.”
    When she opened the door, Charlie the chauffeur walked in with what looked like our food order from Olivier’s. He handed it to Axel, who thanked him, smiled, and left.
    “I bet you didn’t think you’d end up in a hospital on our date,” Axel whispered, setting up the food on the over-bed table.
    “Are you kidding me? You couldn’t have planned it better.”
    “Why?”
    “I don’t know. This is real, I guess. It’s life.”
    “Thanks for taking his mind off the surgery.” He passed me a fork and opened the Styrofoam box with my steamed trout, rice, and baby asparagus. The appetizing aroma made my mouth water.
    “You’re welcome. I just didn’t want him to be scared.”
    “So, you have a sister?”
    “Had.”
    “I’m sorry. I guess you do know what it’s like to love someone and lose them after all.”
    I nodded, a little bit weary of any further questions he’d ask. I wasn’t ready to talk about her. It was difficult enough when I thought about the past, but talking… yeah, I’d never talked about her.
    “It’s still painful for you, isn’t it?” he asked.
    “Yes, I don’t think there will ever be a day when it’s not. Sometimes, when my mind is pre-occupied, I’m able to forget.”
    Axel looked over at Trevor, who was already asleep. Had his son helped him to forget about the mother’s passing?
    “Like when I took you against that wall?”
    I almost dropped my fork as my cheeks heated. “Yes, like that.”
    “Well, then, we’ll have to make sure I take your mind off things more often.”
    “Are you trying to seduce me, Mr. Wagner?”
    “I thought that was a given, Ms. Summers.”
    “For what it’s worth, you don’t need to. I’m already quite smitten with you. I just can’t seem to figure out why me.”
    “Stop trying to figure it out and let it be then.”
    “You deserve someone better. Someone who wouldn’t have cheated on their other half.”
    “You call it cheating; I call it perfect timing.”
    “I still need to officially break it off with him before whatever it is that’s happening here goes any further. So no more dinners or outings until that’s done.” I then frowned. “Except I can’t seem to reach him.”
    “Maybe Fate’s giving you a sign.”
    “Maybe. I hope so.”
    He smiled. “I should help you find him, then.”
    “No, please. Trust me. You don’t want to know him or have anything to do with him at all. I’ll deal with it, and maybe the guilt will ease.”
    “You’re a good person, Trish, and it’s so easy to talk to you. I feel like I’ve known you for years. Comfortable and at ease. Yet I still don’t know much about you. And despite that, I want to spend more time with you. I haven’t felt this way around a woman in a long time.”
    “Don’t make me out to be a saint, because I’m not.”
    “Neither am I.”
    “Mr. Wagner. Can I talk to you for a moment?” The doctor peeked inside the room.
    “Yes, of course.”
    When the door shut, Trevor opened his eyes and looked worried.
    “Hey, your daddy’s just outside, honey. Why are you so sad?”
    He scrunched his brows as if he were looking for an answer before saying, “My dinosaur bwoke. I was dweaming about him and wemembewed and woke up.”
    “Which dinosaur?”
    “It used to move and now it doesn’t. I changed the battewies and it’s not helping. Do you think the doctow can fix it?”
    “I’m not sure. Is it an electric dinosaur?”
    He nodded and pointed to his knapsack.
    “You brought it with you?”
    “I packed it when my tummy stawted to huwt.”
    “Can I have a look at it?”
    He smiled in approval and lay back, and I removed the brown dinosaur from the knapsack. With the rounded tip of a knife that had been included with our meal, I unscrewed the back. One of the cables had come loose, and I plugged it back in. The dinosaur roared, and Trevor’s eyes flew open.
    “You fixed it!”
    I closed the back and handed the toy to Trevor.