”Hello!”

“Someone’s very chipper today.”

It was prudent of Deirdre to have stopped shy of calling out Tobey’s name, or Brendan would have immediately caught wind.

“Did you guess it was going to be me?”

Deirdre gripped her fork tightly. “Who else could have called me?”

He laughed. Deirdre heard the sound of the airport announcing boarding time for a specific plane and froze. “Where are you?”

“Aww… You heard that?” Brendan sounded a little disappointed. “It was supposed to be a surprise, bu