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“He was!”
“You were too good for him.”
“As were you for Janet,” she shot back.
“Which was why I started dating Teresa.”
“And after Ray dumped me, I dated Mark Walker for a long while.”
“I thought he was the one.”
“I thought Teresa was the one for you. She was smart, funny.”
“And only dating me to get close to Reid.”
“To his credit, he didn’t take her up on it,” Sabrina pointed out. “That’s what friends should do. Reid’s a good friend.”
“He is.” Flynn examined his coffee. “Wish I’d have seen Veronica coming. She blindsided me.”
“True story.” Sabrina had witnessed it firsthand. Flynn was fresh off a breakup with Teresa and smarting over it. Gage’s engagement had ended so he was as sad a sack as Flynn. Reid was in charge of keeping them from moping and so he dragged them to a party one random Friday night and that’s where Flynn met Veronica. She’d swept in and convinced him—and the rest of his friends—that she was the woman Flynn needed.
“I guess Julian didn’t abide by the friend code.”
“I guess not,” she concurred sadly. Because it was sad. Devastatingly upsetting, actually. How could Veronica leave Flynn when her job was to love him more than she loved herself?
“I really hate her sometimes.” Sabrina pressed her lips together, wanting to swallow the words she shouldn’t have said.
They were true, though. She didn’t hate Veronica only because of the cheating and leaving. Sabrina had felt that surge of bitterness toward the woman throughout Flynn’s marriage for one simple reason: Veronica was selfish. As had now been proved.
“I’m sorry I said that.”
“Don’t be,” Flynn said.
They were interrupted by the delivery of waffles and a refill of coffee for Flynn. A plate of bacon appeared, smoky and inviting, and he moved it to the center of the table like he always had. Sabrina never ordered bacon because it was unhealthy and, frankly, she felt sort of bad for the pigs. He suffered no such guilt and knew she would cave and have a bite or two. He always shared.
“Hate whomever you want.” He pointed at her with a strip of bacon before taking a bite and blessedly changed the subject. “After all, I hated Craig.”
“Craig Ross.”
A minor blip to get her over Ray. It worked on the short term and then she realized he was a complete narcissist. She dumped him shortly after they started seeing each other.
“And there you have it,” she stated. “I’ve been single most of the time you and Veronica were married. But this is the first time you have been single at the same time as me.”
“But you’ve dated.”
“Nothing serious.”
“Meaning?” He paused, fork holding a bite of waffle midair, syrup drizzling onto the plate.
“Meaning...nothing serious.”
“No permanent plans, you mean.”
“No...other things, too.” She dived into her own waffle.
“No sex?”
Okay, that was a little loud.
