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Mark laughs. “My brother’s engaged.”
“Oh.” Tiffany bats her eyelashes at me. “Drew?”
“Only have a sister. And she’s married,” I add pointedly.
Tiffany giggles. “I don’t swing that way.”
She clearly swings every way else, though.
“Well,” Tiffany says, looking away from us, staring out at the ocean. “My life could be worse than talking to a couple of hot guys and getting rejected. I could have saggy boobs, you know?” She sticks her chest out. “They’re good, right? The surgeon says I’m all healed from my lift surgery six weeks ago.”
Mark coughs and tries not to look. “They’re fine.”
Bzzzz.
My back pocket vibrates and I pull out the phone.
Gentian. A routine paperwork question.
I take the opportunity and look at Mark. “Work. We need to go.” I nudge my head toward my place. “Bye, Tiffany.”
“Bye, Drew. And nice to meet you --”
I close the door and run my hands through my hair while Mark tries to laugh silently.
“Girlfriend? Now you’re calling Lindsay your girlfriend? If she’s your girlfriend, I’d hate to see what a woman who really hates you looks like, Foster.”
I glare. “Fuck off, Paulson.”
“Threesome,” he gasps. “That’s a first.”
“Really? Even in the DEA, undercover...?” Mark’s worked deep undercover for years.
“Been hit on by guys. Loads of women. Never been offered a threesome, though.” He frowns. “Carrie’s going to hate hearing this.”
I don’t even ask why he’s telling her. I know his philosophy of relationships. You keep a secret when you need to, or when work requires it. Otherwise, you tell everything, because we already have to keep so many secrets.
Relationships are built on sharing and trust.
Trust.
Right.
Lindsay can’t trust me, and I don’t blame her.
And I can’t share everything with her because I don’t have a choice.
“Thanks for the very interesting evening, Foster. I came here to make sure you’re okay, and instead I got to be a judge on Best Plastic Surgery in Malibu.”
“Don’t ever say my jobs aren’t intellectually stimulating.”
“I think Tiffany’s over there intellectually stimulating herself right now,” he adds dryly.
“Gross.”
But we laugh.
“Tiffany’s a nice person. She just has boundary issues.”
