I'd been unable to talk to anybody about what's been going on in my life for so long that I just let it all out.
"Well, honey, you're not meant to fall in love with the people you're investigating. This is what you did wrong, and I'm sure you already know it by now." Pia was like a mom and a sister rolled into one. It was probably because she was so tall that she felt she owed it to every woman who was relatively smaller than her. She managed to wipe away my tears.
"I am very much aware of that. I really did try not to be, but I think I was already half in love with him before the feds started to confront me. Pia," I said quietly, even though no one could hear me.
"I hadn't had sex in ten years before him."
"Wow, that's a long time." It's about time you got laid." She nodded, unflappable, despite the fact that I thought my lack of a sex life was such a closely guarded secret. It takes a lot of guts to say something like that. She didn't seem surprised in the least.