Chapter Seventeen - The Music Ends

Declan looked around carefully at his kitchen, pleased with how it had turned out. It was pristine and the food on the counter tops even more so. The best part, was the fact that each dish without exception had chocolate sauce. Declan had cooked for her. In his apartment, and had invited her over in... he glanced at his watch. Ten minutes. Well. She would be here in ten looked down at himself and grinned. Chocolate was all over his cooking shirt. No matter. Declan twirled out of the kitchen and into his bedroom, out of the dirty clothes, and into Amara's favorite shirt of his, favorite pants, fixed his hair then walked out after putting a touch of cologne on his neck. There. Understated paced around his apartment, watching his phone like, well, like a Declan, waiting for Amara to ring in below.

Finally, she rang. A few minutes ahead, but it wasn't like he wasn't ready.

"Enter!" he called out, letting her inside the building with a buzz. Declan ran out to meet her, nearly slipping on t