“Don’t say I didn’t warn you,” Alicia laughed, delighted at the playfulness in Adrian. Oh, she had seen it before, but it wasn’t all that easily displayed, she knew that. Tonight it just felt exciting and new, the smile that appeared on his lips when he looked at their hands made her feel warm, comfortable and nervous the same time, even more so when he poured the wine without moving his hand away from hers.
Lifting her own glass, Alicia met Adrian’s eyes. “To a new school year,” she accepted his toast, but couldn’t find it in herself to toast to the Foundation being lucky to have her. If anything, she was lucky to have the Foundation and she was the reason Mrs. Fawley had started it up in the first place. “And to he help and support from extraordinary people.” Adrian more than qualified for that, and without him, she wasn’t certain she would have made it through today, or the past year, at least.