The Piersons · September 21, 2019 0

“I need to ask you about something else,” he said.

“What’s up?”

“What does Victor keep coming around here for?”

He felt her shifting in her seat. “What do you mean?”

He sighed, hoping she’d be completely innocent. “The other night, I took out the trash. He was standing on the porch looking in the door. He seemed real surprised to see me.”

“He’s probably just lonely,” she said dismissively. “You know he got divorced.”

He sucked his teeth. “That was SO long ago! And, why would he be lonely with a young wife and a toddler?”

She gasped. “He remarried?”