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Another three hours, an impromptu nap, and several texts back and forth to my sisters later, we pulled into a Burger King.
“Bathroom break,” he said. “Hungry?”
I shrugged. “I could eat.” I looked over my shoulder at a very antsy-looking Lancelot. “I’ll walk him. Get me a fish burger, fries, and an apple turnover. Actually, get some cheese sticks, too. And a bottle of water.”
Adam raised an eyebrow. “Some things never change.”
That made me laugh to myself as I walked the dog. When Adam and I used to meet at the diner after school, I’d eat him under the table nearly every time. I was never the kind of girl to be picky or worry about eating less than a guy. If I was hungry, I ate.
Back in the Bel Air, I shared my fries with Lance, earning me more than one frown. “Don’t get food on the seats. Tobias is gonna blow a gasket as it is.”
“I didn’t steal his car, babe,” I said, throwing the word in there on purpose.
That earned me a sideways glare as he shoved the shades up on his head. “Who’s being a dick now, babe?”
I laughed. I couldn’t help it. And it felt good.
But why did it feel good? Because I was being a jerk? Or because I was being a jerk in a car, with Adam, after all these years?
“So...” I began.
“Shit,” he mumbled around a bite of a burger.
“What was it like in prison?” I asked, licking tartar sauce off the edge of my fish burger.
He gave me a quizzical glance. “Something I never want to tell you about.”
“Ever?”
He made a cutting motion with his hand.
Okay, then.
“So, you aren’t working at the church anymore?” he asked. “I know you’ve been on leave, but you aren’t going back?”
I played with a French fry. “Church isn’t ours anymore,” I said, shrugging as if it pushed the topic off my shoulders. “But besides that, it just—I don’t know.”
“Feels tainted now?”
I glanced his way. He knew something more than he was telling me. “I guess.”
“So, what are you going to do?” he asked around another bite.
“Don’t know yet,” I said. “I have some money saved, and my expenses are low, so I have a little time to figure it out.”
Adam nodded, and a few more moments passed as we ate in silence.
“That was a pretty bad nightmare you had last night,” he said, rubbing his jaw. “You have a good elbow jab.”
My head spun. “I—I hit you?”
“I just got in the way of you defending yourself, I think,” he said. “You were on a mission.”
“God, I’m sorry.”
He shook his head. “Don’t be. Good to know you can hold your own.”
I returned my gaze to the road. “Not well enough.”
