Koala Reads

"Without the shrill insistence of her phone alarm, Su Yang slept late."

"When she finally woke, daylight was already slipping through the gap in the curtains. She rolled over and the other side of the bed was empty—Xu Lize had gotten up sometime earlier. Blinking awake, she gingerly wiggled her injured left foot; the pain was still there. She sighed, accepted it, and hopped off the bed to the bathroom."

"When she came back down from the master bedroom, she saw him in the kitchen. The range hood hummed loudly; he was in casual loungewear, standing oddly upright, oddly serious. She found herself curious about what he was cooking."