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GATHERED HER CONTROL
“You’ve got a boyfriend?” Billy asked her on Saturday. It was eleven and they were waiting for Julie to show up.
She’d asked Billy to arrive early, if it was possible, that she’d like to talk to him about something.
Since he knew what was going on with the notes and the car, he probably thought it had to do with that. It’d only been a text to him and he replied yes. Nothing more.
Typical, unless he had something to give her grief about.
Now they were in Lake George where Billy was going to get on the Minne Ha Ha one-hour cruise with Gracie and Julie, then go to lunch and walk the shops.
The fact that this was only fifteen minutes from her house made it more convenient for once. And that Blaze was off today also.
Double bonus.
“Yes. I wanted you to know. To hear it from me.”
Billy crossed his arms. “Has Gracie met him? Because that’s not fair.”
“Yes, she has, but she doesn’t know him as my boyfriend.”
Billy snarled at her. “I’m talking to my lawyer about this.”
“Billy,” she hissed. Gracie was still in the car with the AC on and watching a video in the backseat on Arden’s iPad. “I don’t have rules against me like you do.”
“Why not?”
“You should have put them there if you wanted them, but you didn’t say a word.”
“Because you never date.”
She wanted to throw her hands up, but that might alert Gracie to more going on. “That’s right! And that I am now, should tell you it’s important.”
“So is Tina.”
“I’m not disputing Tina is important in your life, but you’re the one who made the mistakes and you need to correct them for the courts to lift the restrictions.”
“Who is this asshole?”
She ran her tongue over her teeth in an attempt to bite back the words that wanted to come out of her mouth. Calmly, she said, “That’s not helping your case any replying that way.”
“Tell me, Arden.” His stance got more rigid, then he seemed to catch himself and leaned against his truck, his hands not curling into fists like they used to.
Didn’t matter. She still took a step back closer to her car door to get in if she had to.
Not that she’d thought Billy would do anything in the public, but it felt like she couldn’t trust herself anymore either.
“It’s my neighbor. The doctor. I’ve brought him up before. He works at the hospital.”
“Sounds suspicious to me.”
“How do you figure that?” Sometimes she couldn’t figure out what went through her ex’s mind.
“I don’t know. It just seems weird.”
“Actually, it might never have crossed our paths we were neighbors if it wasn’t for the day you showed up unannounced.”
