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Frieda chuckled. “I know what you mean. Davis is dating my youngest sister, Heidi. Davis’ younger brother, Tucker, is dating Cynthia. Tucker’s friend Pierce is dating Lorrie, who is Cynthia’s best friend. Both of them work for us at the hotel. Then there’s Birgit and Chris. Chris just sold his last liquor store and is not retiring. He’s kind of the odd one out in that he’s not really connected with the other guys.”
“And now I guess you can also add Erik and Wendy to the list of couples,” Regan noted, smirking.
“It’s new,” Frieda stated, “but yeah, I definitely think something is going on between the two of them.”
“I wonder what that means for us,” Regan asked, giving her a look that made her laugh.
“What are you talking about?” she laughed.
“I’m just saying there seems to be a pattern here,” Regan teased.
“Well, we just broke up,” Frieda joked back.
A look of feign hurt came over Regan’s face, and he put his hand on his heart.
“That’s right. You’ve already ruined me.”
He then shrugged and reached for the door.
“Well, what do you do? Still friends?”
Frieda laughed as she pushed at him, then opened her own door.
“Sure,” she giggled, “why not?”
ChapterFour
“Anitacompletelyforgot about my little faux pas at her party as soon as you two caused the scene,” Wendy explained. It was almost three hours later. Frieda and Regan were beginning to worry that something had gone awry when Erik’s truck finally pulled into Davis’ driveway. They had bags of take-out food with them, and Wendy had begun her report as soon as they’d all sat down.
“Seriously?” Frieda asked, though she wasn’t surprised. Anita was an incredibly fickle woman.
“She stopped mid-sentence when you stood up and started shouting and never went back to the topic,” Wendy explained, giving off an accomplished smile. “Didn’t speak a word during the whole scene. Then, afterward, she had a lot of questions about you. After that, she moved on to financial stuff and resumed her push for a Friday meeting with Jansen Marks.
“That’s the name of the guy Jimmy wants me to meet on Friday,” Regan piped up, pointing his chopsticks at Wendy.
“Our appointment is at two in the afternoon,” said Wendy. “When are you meeting with him?”
“Jimmy hasn’t gotten back to me yet, but I’ll bet the farm it’ll be at two,” Regan replied.
“That’s a pretty safe bet,” Wendy agreed. “When she wasn’t asking about your imaginary relationship, she was doing her best to praise Jimmy.”
Wendy paused, rolling her eyes. “Anita swears up and down that he was the best mayor our town ever had and that he wassointelligent. She went on and on about how he was misunderstood by so many, including his ex-wife.”
“My sister,” Frieda stated flatly, feeling her temper spike.
Wendy frowned and nodded.
“Unfortunately, a little degradation of your sister’s name did occur,” she admitted, her tone apologetic, “but it was revealing. Keep in mind Anita was drinking this entire time and was on her fourth martini by the time Birgit came up. She started bragging about herself being an ‘alpha woman’ and confessed to being in a relationship with two men. She didn’t come out and say it exactly, but she laid the dots out pretty easy for me to connect. It’s clear the other guy is Jimmy.”
“What about poor Frank?” Frieda asked. “How does he feel about this?”
Wendy gave her a pleading look.
“Isowanted to ask, but I didn’t want to risk her paranoia if I revealed I was worried for him. I just told her that was a pretty intense power move and then she insisted we do shots.”
“How mature,” Regan murmured, looking unamused.
“She’s like a frat boy,” Frieda added, shaking her head in disgust. “Oh, Frank. You deserved much better.”
