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“I know,” Damon agreed.“It’s not easy coming back to civilian life, but at least you’ve been lucky enough to find Scarlet.Must’ve made things easier.”
“You have no idea,” I stated.
My brother threw his crust back in the plate and sighed.“I wish I could find a woman like her.”
“What happened with Rachel?”
“She’s fun and all, but it wouldn’t work long-term.She doesn’t live here.She doesn’t plan on moving back.And there’s just something missing between us, if that makes sense.”
I nodded.“Makes perfect sense.”
“I need that spark, but also someone with a lot of layers.Someone who will reveal them all to me and it’ll bring us closer because of our connection.”
I joked, “Sounds like you’re looking for an onion.”
“You’re hilarious,” he retorted.“But I’m serious.”
“It’s not easy.Dating, that is.”
“Or so you’ve heard.You went straight from Christina to the Army and then Scarlet.You got lucky.”
I shrugged.“I guess I did.”
Damon quirked an eyebrow.“What is it?”
“What?”
“What is it that’s on your mind?”
“It’s just,” I paused, “this morning Scar was acting weird.”
“Weird, how?”
“Like she was hiding something.”
“You think it has something to do with her ex again?”
“No,” I answered too quick.Then I backtracked.“I think she would’ve told me if he contacted her again.”
“So what is it?”
If only I knew, I thought to myself.“She was clutching something in one of her hands, trying to hide it from me in the bathroom and then when I caught her, she immediately made up some lame lie about two celebrities getting married.”
“What?”Damon chuckled.“She’s totally hiding something.”
“That’s what I think, but what is it?”
“What happened after that?”he asked.
“She said she had a gynecologist appointment she forgot about.”
“Well, there you have it,” Damon said, as though he figured it all out.I was still puzzled, though.“No woman wants to talk about her gyno.It’s like talking about their period.They just don’t talk about that with their man.And thank God for that.”
I combed a hand through my hair and sighed.“It’s something more, I just know it.”
“Ask her when you get home.I’m sure she just wasn’t ready to tell you.Maybe she will be when she gets home from her appointment.”
“I guess so,” I told him.And just as I was about to ask when he became an expert on relationships, my phone rang.It was Brooke, so I answered it.
