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“It should,” she said.
“You’re not going to make this easy on me, are you?”
“I shouldn’t have to,” she said. “The only thing I’m guilty of is not telling Lonnie I had a boyfriend. But it’s never come up and he’s never been around when I’d talk about you at work. Which wasn’t often.”
He knew that about her. It wasn’t much different than he was. Hell, even James didn’t know for months.
“You’re right. I told you I had an ex. Her name was Genevieve. I wasn’t in love with her or anything. It was a few months that we were together. She was the one to ask me out. She was at a bar one night and came over to talk.”
He wasn’t used to picking women up in a bar and told himself he wasn’t going to date anyone again if no one he knew had heard of them.
Yet he’d done that with Faith. He didn’t know her and found himself in her house.
Thinking back, he’d broken his own rules and that should have meant something.
“You didn’t check into her?” she asked. “You said you were looking for signs.”
“Nothing to check into,” he said. “I’m not on social media and neither was she. I didn’t find it odd. It’s not like I was going to do a criminal search on her through work.”
“Many our age are on social media,” she said.
“But you aren’t,” he said.
“I’ve always been the odd one. Or outcast. We know that,” she said.
“We have that in common it seems. Moving on, there were signs and I was looking for them without calling her out on them. I didn’t want to be an ass.”
“How did you find out? Did you follow or have her watched?”
He wasn’t going to feel guilty over this. “I was a new detective. I wasn’t around much and I got thinking she was looking for companionship elsewhere. I’m not going to feel bad that one night things didn’t make sense and I followed her. She ended up at someone else’s house. She stayed the night. The next morning she was kissing him when she left.”
He didn’t even have to take the time to look into who lived there. He got the answers he needed.
“Not a good way to find out,” she said.
“When I confronted her, she admitted it. That she’d been in a relationship for a year and they had an agreement that they could see other people to keep things fresh in their relationship.”
“Ewww. I mean to each their own, but she should have clued you in on that,” she said.
“She should have and didn’t. And with my job and all, I should have seen it and didn’t.”
“So you beat yourself up over that more?” she asked.
“I did,” he said. “It’s been years since I’ve opened myself up to someone again.”
“Me?” she asked.
“Yes.”
“And seeing what you did, you couldn’t help but think you haven’t been around enough for me and that maybe I was finding what I could be missing from someone else?”
“Yes,” he said.
“I’ve got Fred for that,” she said, laughing. “He’s a good cuddler at night. You know that.”
He let out a laugh. “I do know that. I guess the bigger question is if you can forgive me for being an ass?”
“Since I love you, I don’t have much of a choice, do I?”
