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Her steps slowed. “What did she want?”
“She said she thinks she made a mistake.” Never in all the time I’d known her had she ever said those words or anywhere in the realm of them.
It was bothering me to the point I couldn’t think of anything else.
Like always.
Alma was determined to consume all my thoughts. I’d had enough. I’d given her enough, yet I was still on her merry-go-round.
“Why would she say that?”
“You don’t think she made a mistake?” I couldn’t keep the bitterness out of my tone.
“I don’t understand why she’d be determined to take you for all you have then a few hours later try to stay with you.”
“Because now she has a stake in pretty much everything I have. Once the divorce is final, that’s it. She gets what she gets.”
There was the angle. She could make nice. I wouldn’t continue the proceedings. She’d move back in and things would go back to the way they were. Where she had access to a blank check and a bottomless bank account.
“I don’t think she made a mistake,” JoJo said quietly.
I snorted bitterly. “Of course not. Kane is always the bad guy.”
“I’ve never understood your relationship.”
I pretended not to notice she didn’t correct my thought that I wasn’t a good person.
“Neither have I,” I said honestly.
“You seemed in love way back then.” She stumbled over the wordlove.
I slowed my gate and studied her. There was nothing in her expression to give away what was going on in her head.
“In lustwould be a better term.”
She made an eww face. “I remember that part well.”
“Jealous, weren’t you?”
I couldn’t help myself. Couldn’t help goading her. And judging by the way her lips went into a flat line, I’d succeeded.
“No.” She lifted her chin. “You were insufferable then, and you’re insufferable now.”
I bumped shoulders with her. “See what you’ve been missing out on all these years? We could’ve been bickering. God knows it’s more interesting than most of the last quarter century.”
I snapped my mouth shut. I hadn’t meant to say that last part, but what the hell? It was true.
“You haven’t led a very exciting life.”
“Arguing with me isn’t one of your favorite things to do?” I scoffed. “I’ll never believe that.”
“Well, believe it.” But that flat line of her lips turned into an upward curve.
“How much longer do I have to get my fill before you disappear for the next twenty-two years?”
“However long it takes you to exonerate my daughter.”
I bumped her again. “That’s a lot of power you’ve given me. I could drag this out...years.”
