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Justin nodded once, his eyes downcast. “Yeah. I’m in.”
Judith picked at her bagel. “I want to talk to him.”
“Please, Judith, all he asked me to tell—”
“He’s not the only one who’s been through this,” Judith said quickly. “Let me talk to him.”
“Babe?” Justin asked, and Judith nodded.
“He already knows,” Judith said, motioning towards her husband. “But it may help him to talk to someone else who’s been there.”
Katrina reached across the table and squeezed Judith’s hand. “I had no idea.”
“Well, I’m not the poster girl. I just had a skeezy uncle who thought I was his plaything. He’s rotting in the ground now, too, just like the bitch that did this to Lorenzo. I think I can help. I want to help,” she added.
Judith.
The same Judith who Katrina had dismissed as snobby and bitchy was extending her help for Ren.
“I’m sure he’ll appreciate it,” Katrina replied.
“I’d like to help you, too.”
Once again, a tear slipped down Katrina’s cheek. “Thank you.”
***
As Katrina got in hercar to head into work that morning, her phone began to ring a familiar tone.
Timothy was calling.
With a heavy sigh, she put her Bluetooth earbud in and accepted the call. “Hello?”
“I was a jackass.”
She started her car, looking carefully as she backed out of the driveway. “I don’t know what you want me to say to that. Other than I agree. You were.”
“Let me make it up to you. Dinner, tonight, your favorite restaurant.”
Katrina shook her head even though he couldn’t see it. “I don’t think that’s such a great idea right now. I have a lot going on.”
“Tell me you’re not still babysitting.”
It wasn’t just what he said, but the tone he used that sparked her anger. “I was never babysitting, Timothy, I was being there for a friend.”
“And what about Emily, huh? Where are you when she needs you?”
Emily.
She’d almost forgotten about the venom that had spewed from her mouth.
“I heard what he did to you.”
“You have no idea what went on.” Katrina’s voice was hard, firm. “And furthermore, as I recall, it’s no longer any of your business.”
“Trina—”
“No. No, I don’t want to hear it.” She hit end on the call and continued her drive, fuming. Another call came through almost immediately, and she answered with a “What?”
