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“Or not,” she said. “If it’s something he doesn’t want brought up, he’ll hope that was the end of it.”
“Think about it, Stacy. If he’s that concerned about it, he’ll make sure it doesn’t get brought up again. And the only way for that to happen is to tell us.”
She should have thought of that too.
“I guess you’re right. Let’s see which one of us he says it to, if any. If he doesn’t, then we are letting our minds wander for no reason. Sometimes I think the Fierces make me doubt things.”
Her mind was going down paths looking for answers and explanations when maybe they were as simple as a fight or argument over a silly thing between Gabe and Elise.
Or maybe it was nothing more than Elise knew of her son’s reputation in college and didn’t care for it.
“I’m glad to know I’m not alone there,” Jim said. “They are so sneaky and looking at all the angles that I find I’m doing it too. We should stop. Let Gabe do his thing and just keep our eyes open.”
“I agree,” she said. “The Fierces said they could make this work. I’m not sure how much of a hand they had in it or not.”
“They will say it’s all them,” Jim said, laughing. “You know that.”
“True,” she said, grinning. “Whatever works, right?”
“That’s right. Whatever works. And this seems to be working just fine.”
31
DIRTY LITTLE HABITS
“It wasn’t that bad was it?” Gabe asked her when they got back to his house hours later.
“No,” Elise said. “I’m not sure why I was nervous.”
He pulled her close into his arms for a hug. She found he was a huggie type of person when she’d never been that way.
She liked it but didn’t want to admit it either.
“You told me why you were,” he said. “I get it. I might have felt that way too if I didn’t know your father and brother and Chloe as well as I do.”
“You had kind of an advantage,” she said.
He laughed at her. “You could have had the same advantage if you didn’t avoid me for years.”
He had a point.
And one that might have brought their past up when Jim asked about them in college.
Elise hadn’t been sure how to answer that.
She and Gabe had agreed their past was going to stay that way.
She had moved on and she knew he did, but that didn’t mean she wanted the world to know what idiots the two of them were.
More her than him in her eyes.
Hopefully his parents wouldn’t bring it up again.
“You’re right,” she said.
“Did you just say I was right?” he asked and gave her a little bit more of a squeeze. “It feels like all my dirty little habits were exposed today. No one said a word about you stealing my food a few times.”
She grinned over the grouchiness of his voice and the comment on the food. She really shouldn’t do that but just found rather than getting more on her plate, she took some of his.
