"Did you hear the news?" Aaron asked casually.
Keeley looked up from what she was stirring with a small frown on her face. "What news?"
"Gray got arrested."
She nearly dropped her wooden spoon. That would have been a nice thing to lead with! Why hadn't he said something sooner?!
"So it's really over," she said faintly. "All of it."
Aaron smiled at her with such a gentle expression that she nearly melted into the floor. After all this time, she still wasn't quite used to being looked at like that.
"Basically. You don't have to worry about anything but normal day to day worries anymore."
Normal day to day worries…of course, Keeley had still had those throughout all of the drama that brought them to this point. It only added to her overall stress. But now she could focus on those instead of having to deal with potentially being plotted against at every corner.
