Chapter 116

TARA FUSSED WITH HER appearance. On any given day, she was far more concerned with getting the kids to school on time and bundling her hair up out of the way for work than she was with impressing anyone. There'd been no one she wanted to impress in longer than she cared to remember. But she wanted to impress Jace. Livia had already taken the kids, so she indulged in all the female date night rituals she'd forsaken for unofficial parenthood, hemming and hawing over the limited wardrobe she'd brought and spending as much time on her hair and makeup as she would've for a professional performance. And maybe this date was a performance, in a way.

Date Night starring Tara Honeycutt as Normal Girl.

A challenging role. Can she pull it off?

His knock came on the apartment door, and she sucked in a bracing breath. She was about to find out.

"It's open!" she called out.

The door opened. "Tara?"