Chapter 84

She sighed. “You look at him differently, Nick. You’re like, eating him up with your eyes. We all see it. You two keep exchanging intimate glances.”

I was going to lose my cool. She was wearing me down. So I put my stare at her eye level. “Please. Let. It. Go.”

“No, he’s my daughter’s father,” she said, carefully. “If a bomb goes off in this family,Vee is gonna pay for it first.” She touched my arm. “Don’t get angry…Nicolai.”

“All right. All right.” I looked behind me, at the kitchen doorway. “We had a fling,” I conceded, knowingLene would get to the truth with or without me. “But it wasn’t just me and Myles, okay? It was between the three of us.”

Her mouth dropped open and she glimpsed the doorway behind me. “What?”

“But I think it’s ending. I don’t know.” I scratched my head. “Myles is moving out.”

“You and Derek…andMyles had a sexual relationship?”

“Hey, get over it,Lene. You slept with Myles, too.”

“Ha, I knew he was hiding something.”