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“I know that.” Candice said before taking a sip from her glass.
“We talked on the phone.”
Candice placed her glass down. “Like how often?”
Tilly couldn’t help the smile thinking about Gage. “Every day.”
“And by that smile, I’m guessing you weren’t sharing recipes.”
Tilly stopped pacing, leveled with her friend. “He’s amazing, Candice. It was so easy to talk to him. There was never uncomfortable silence, we always had stuff to talk about, even talking every day.”
Candice sat up straighter and urged Tilly to go on. “So what happened?”
Tilly remembered the night Luke walked in on her and Gage. Her cheeks warmed but not from embarrassment, from longing. “We had phone sex—”
Candice was off the sofa. “You did what?”
“We didn’t actually finish because Luke walked in.”
Candice didn’t blink, didn’t move for a full few seconds and then she reached for the bottle of wine and drank straight from it. “You’re telling me you were having phone sex with another man and your husband walked in on you.”
“He didn’t know what I was doing. He thought I was just entertaining myself.”
Candice’s expression shifted. “Well, damn, Tilly. That’s really kind of sad.”
“It is what it is. My marriage hasn’t been good for a long time. You know that, you’ve been telling me. I just didn’t want to hear it.”
“But you’re hearing it now.” Candice wasn’t asking.
“Yeah.”
“And it’s not me making you see it.” Candice added.
“No. I didn’t know it could be like that, Candice. That I could be so connected to someone. We met three weeks ago.”
“In person?” Candice’s eyes were wide.
“Yes.”
“Did you fuc—”
“No, but not for a lack of wanting to. We talked, we kissed, we connected on a level I’ve never had with Luke. It was the most perfect day, which made saying goodbye so hard.”
“Wait!” Candice was pacing now. “You met this man, connected, and then said goodbye?”
It hurt talking about Gage, voicing how much she missed him, but she forged on. “We said goodbye because it wasn’t just flirting, it wouldn’t have just been a fling. It was real, it was deep, and we were only at the beginning.”
“And he was okay with walking away?”
A sad little smile touched Tilly’s lips at the memory. “He was the one who walked away first, did what I couldn’t do.”
“And since then?”
“Nothing. It was a clean break.” Tilly answered absently, but then added, “He’s changed me, Candice. I’m not happy. I’m not content, but now I know what I’m missing. And I do miss him. Every fucking day.”
Candice studied her friend, saw a look in her eyes she’d never seen before, one she had never had with Luke. “Call him.”
Tilly’s head jerked to her. “What?”
