Sublime

He prepared himself a meal: radishes in a saucer with Maldon salt and grassy olive oil; good rye bread, and red wine poured with the pleasure of a man who’s elected to sin.

ameliorated.

Luka in the bakehouse with a grin and a blush, a candy cane half hanging out of his mouth as he says, “She’s amazing and she doesn’t even know it. She’d give you the sweater off her back.”