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It’s good seeing you Lacey,”Trigg says, leaning on the driver’s side of my Jeep.
“You too.” I look back at Jacob with his headphones on, playing with his tablet. None of my business, but I’ll throw it out and see what he says. It’s been so many years, and after that night, he disappeared. If Landon and I can come face-to-face without the earth cracking, who knows?
“Aren’t you going to ask me about her?”
“Who?” He looks at me with that easy Trigg smile, a mop of dirty blond hair falling into his face, pretending he doesn’t know who she is. I can see why my sister fell for him now. Underneath all that grunge was a rough diamond, of sorts. He had that sexy dirty thing going for him back then, too.
“Should I ask?” He looks at me, one golden-brown brow arched.
“Not if you don’t want to. It’s cool, none of my business.” I shrug and leave it at that. What else would I say?
“See, that’s why I always liked you, Lacey.” He pushes off the side of my Jeep. “Let’s let sleeping dogs lie, because some things are best left in the past.”
I don’t know the story of what caused the big fight, which then lead to them breaking up for good, after catching him in that room. Shay didn’t tell me, and I didn’t ask. Maybe it was something painful, maybe it wasn’t. They were so volatile they could have been arguing over who gets the last cigarette. I don’t need to question her. If she wanted to tell me she would. If not, I understand. Some things you need to keep to yourself and move on.
“Talk. Jacob is sound asleepin bed, I washed the dishes, and I took care of the garbage. You’ve put me off long enough. How was it?”
I sit across from Shay and smooth my hand over the cushion between us. She’s been asking about the meet-up with Landon from the moment I stepped in the door. Her car was parked outside when we pulled up to the house. She looked relieved to see me, but I told her I would be fine, she didn’t need to worry about me. She’s as bad as Mom sometimes.
“It wasn’t bad. It went pretty good.”
“Is that all you’re going to say? It was horrible, wasn’t it? I knew I should have gone with Jacob instead.” She sits back, staring at me.
“Shay.” I put my hand on her knee. “It wasn’t bad. We’re going to do this for our kids. We had a talk to clear the air. He wanted to make sure I was okay with the assignment and seeing him. It was all going well...” I trail off, thinking about Bree.
“It was, but what went wrong?”
“His wife came in.”
“So what? She knew you guys were meeting up. Right?”
“She knew, but I don’t think she knew who I was.”
“He lied to his wife?” Her forehead creases with the faintest of lines staring at me. “See, that’s a move ripped straight from The Guys’ Guide to Being a World-Class Dickmanual.”
“Shay. I don’t know? Whatever.”
The Landon I remember wouldn’t be so underhanded on purpose. Whatever his reasons for not truly explaining to Bree who I was, their his, and she’s his wife, not mine. I’m not going to try to reason with Shay about it. Whatever I say, she’ll say the opposite, when it comes to Landon. Sleeping dogs will not lie there. Let’s see her reaction to dirty sexy blond.
“In any case, I met Jackson’s mom. Her name is Bree.”
“Like the smelly cheese? Perfect, considering who she’s married to.”
“If you’re not going to be nice, this conversation is over.”
She rolls her eyes. “Continue, please. Nice enough for you?”
Yeah, I’m sure we’re related. We look alike, even with her short, pixie-slash-punk hair. “She was nice—blonde, perky, and outgoing. I could tell she’s the opposite of everything I am.”
“Who the hell cares?”
“Yeah, who cares?” I kind of do. “Anyway, before we left, I saw another good-looking blond. A dirty one.”
“Don’t tell me it’s one of those places with ditsy blondes busting out the seams of their clothes.”
“The dirty blond had a dick, and his name was Trigg,” I say with a straight face. Her face is a wall of nothing. Not one emotion. Blank. “Shay, did you hear me? I said, Trigg. He’s Landon’s partner at The Office.”
“What office?”
