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There was silence in the car after that. He was glad. He didn’t want to hear anything they had to say.
He’d do the right thing soon. Grace was just better off without him. He’d just have to learn to live without her, but it was going to be much harder than what he’d gone through with Lara and the guilt he carried there.
39
SUMS IT UP
“What are you doing here on your day off?” Hunter asked.
Grace looked up from her desk. She couldn’t stay home. It hurt too much.
Maybe she shouldn’t have given Lincoln such a hard time about what he’d told her, but she’d been hurt and pissed. Exactly as he predicted.
Staying home alone on a day they always spent together would have only made it worse.
“I’ve got things to do,” she said.
He moved into her office and shut the door. “Have you talked to Lincoln?”
“Not since Saturday morning,” she said.
Hunter sighed. “I figured as much. So you have no idea what happened?”
“Nope,” she said. “If he wanted me to know he’d tell me. He’s good at keeping secrets. Besides, you or Hailey could have told me and didn’t either.”
“Hailey and I decided it would be best if Lincoln did it.”
“Don’t hold your breath. I’d have to see him for him to talk to me, and even then, as I said, he’s good at secrets.”
“Just like you,” he said. “You haven’t told us the results of the show and you could.”
“Don’t go there, Hunter. It’s not the same thing and you know it.”
“No,” he said. “It’s not. I get it. You’re hurt and upset and pissed off at him. And the combination is confusing and frustrating.”
“That about sums it up,” she said.
“Don’t blame him. This was nothing he did.”
She leaned back in her chair. “Is this a bro code thing? You standing up for him? I thought for sure it’d be Egan coming to me.”
“It’s not that,” Hunter said. “Not at all. You weren’t there and I was.”
“That’s right,” she said. “He didn’t want me there.”
“No,” Hunter said. “Hailey and I said no.”
This was news to her. “He said it was him,” she argued.
“I’m sorry he lied to you. Maybe he thought if you knew it was me and Hailey, you’d try to call Grandpa or someone else and appeal your case to go.”
She would have. “Do you think Grandpa would have let me?”
Hunter lifted an eyebrow. “Most likely. I think Lincoln could have used your support. Maybe he would have been embarrassed over what happened. I was for him, but it’s not his fault and out of his control.”
“Lincoln wouldn’t want anyone to feel that way about him,” she said.
“No,” Hunter said, “he wouldn’t. But when people are in love they don’t make the best decisions. They don’t think things through.”
