Chapter 26

“I fucked up with Rick,” he said simply. “Again. And since it seems that karma really does have a schedule even when she’s running late, he hasn’t called me since our last date.”

Sympathy pulled her mouth down, but at least she didn’t get up from her chair to come over and pat him on the back or some mundane shit like that. “Have you called him?”

“I’m not really interested in hearing the ‘sorry, Charlie’ speech, no.”

“So maybe he’s busy. You know he’s got an insane work schedule.”

He’d already considered that. “Except even when it was insane before, he always managed to sneak in a five-minute call here or there.”

“Because you two were trying to arrange a date.”

“And he hasn’t called to try and arrange another one. This math isn’t that hard.”

“What could you have done that was so bad? I thought you two were really hitting it off.”

“We were.” He reconsidered. “I thought we were.”

“So what was it?”