Then again, maybe not so surprising, but their intense conflict reached the point, as I watched, that she actually looked like she was going to hit him. But not before she looked up and caught me watching, likely with my mouth hanging open.
The two went their separate ways, Gregg brushing past me with his now characteristic wink while Chantal disappeared through the serving door to the dining room. Avoiding me? Hardly took a massive pass of deductive reasoning to reach that assumption.
Part of me prodded at my curiosity to go after her and find out what was going on while the rest of me-the tired and flustered and suddenly overwhelmed part that preferred the arms of my loving husband to pursuit of whatever private issue Chantal might have had with Captain Annoying-shrugged and went about her business.