Emma Hines Fiction

Emma Hines Fiction

My Three

Growing Lemons? #13

A Mended Heart

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Emma Hines
May 06, 2026
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Agatha’s Point of View

Concetta knocked twice, softly, the way she always did—as if the door might be sleeping too.

“Hi Agatha.”

“Hey. Sorry. Did I wake you?”

“I was just finishing up, and I saw a glow under your door. I brought coffee.”

She held the cup in both hands, close to her chest, and the steam rose between us in the doorway like a question neither of us needed to answer.

“I was talking with Luca outside.”

“Not inside?”

“It would be unseemly.”

“Were you dressed like that?”

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