604 Malone

Lucy wasn't so sure asking her parents to move to her apartment was such a good idea anymore.

She had come back from work to meet them, hosting Alicia and Jasmine, and she had been forced to join them in a conversation she had no interest in.

And almost as soon as she got out of the shower after Jasmine and Alicia left, her mother had asked her to join them for dinner. She had been forced to sit through her mother's endless chatters when all she wanted was to do was curl up on her bed with one of those books Harry had borrowed her until she slept off so she could count another day gone until Tom's return.

"It's been a while since we spent time together like this, just the three of us," Andrew said with a happy smile as he sat with Lucy after dinner while Janet went in to freshen up for the night.