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She braced herself, unsure if she wanted to hear it.
“Cassidy’s mom was just diagnosed with breast cancer. She and I worked together when my mom was going through treatment, and Cassidy remembered. She wanted to talk to someone who had been through it with a family member before.”
Jeni was ninety percent sure that’s not all Cassidy wanted. “I mean, I’m sorry to hear that, of course. I just…I thought…”
“You thought what?”
“You know what I thought.”
“That I slept with her?”
She pressed a shaking palm to her forehead, lowering her chin to her chest, phone still to her ear. “Yes. And it made me so jealous that I could hardly breathe. I thought you’d moved on, and apparently I’m such a possessive bitch that even now I’m wondering if she asked you for sympathy sex after you were so wonderful and talked to her at such a hard time in her life.”
“As a matter of fact, she did.”
Jeni leaned forward, burying her face between her knees. “Don’t tell me anything more. I can’t take it.”
Logan remained silent for a moment. “I didn’t.”
The lump in her throat was so tight she could barely get words around it. “You didn’t?”
“No.”
“Why not?” She squeezed her eyes shut. “I’m sorry. Forget I asked that.”
He didn’t say anything.
“Is she still there?”
“No.”
“Can I come over?”
* * *
Jeni closed her eyes and knocked. She adjusted the paper bag in her left hand and fidgeted with her purse strap with the other. The door opened, and her heart swelled three sizes. Butterflies filled her belly, half from nerves and half with longing for the man standing before her.
“Hi,” he said.
“Hi.”
“Come on in.” Logan stepped back and opened the door wide.
Jeni walked inside, inhaling his familiar scent as she passed. Another appealing smell followed soon after. “It smells good in here.”
“I just had tacos.”
“Oh.” Why was that painful? So, he had tacos without her. They were tacos, for crying out loud.
But had he shared tacos with Cassidy? Stop. Let it go.
Jeni went to the living room and stood awkwardly in the middle.
Logan followed her and stopped a few feet away.
“Would you, um, sit? Please?” Jeni asked.
“Okay.” He sat in the middle of the couch and leaned forward a little, his forearms resting on his knees.
