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“I know you dated. You said that before, but because I know your history and your trust issues, I’d think that for you to have sex without a condom, you had to feel something for that person. I’m just curious what happened.”
Knox let out a sigh. He should have known at some point this would come up and had to figure out what he was going to say.
He didn’t like lying and wasn’t going to. He just wouldn’t admit to everything.
“Her name was Savannah,” he said. “We dated for about seven months.”
“How long ago?” she asked. “I told you about Henry.”
“You did,” he said. “I wasn’t sure why, but I understand.”
“I think we are at a point where it’s nice to know more things about each other. We love each other. No reason to have one of us be taken unaware or surprised.”
He didn’t like hearing that.
“No,” he said. “There isn’t much to say. It was about five or six years ago. I was dating her when my father was alive and then after he’d passed.”
“I’m sorry,” she said. “Was she not there for you?”
He’d never told Savannah about his father’s wealth. When it came to him he hadn’t either, but she’d found out because she was nosy and saw the paperwork on his desk.
“She was,” he said. “But things just changed.”
“Changed how?” she asked.
She had the grilled cheese going and he opened the bag of chips and stuck his hand in for something to put in his mouth.
He had to weigh his words and hated that.
He trusted Sage. He really did.
But there was too much in his life that made him step back from fully letting everything be known.
“She wanted me to be someone I wasn’t. She wanted to go out and do things that I didn’t care for.”
“Like?” she asked.
“Vacations to exotic islands. Go to shows and plays.”
She started to laugh. “That’s funny and nothing like you at all. I’d think she’d know those things in the beginning.”
“She did,” he said. “But the longer we were together, the more demanding she became. She’d use my father as an excuse to do it. Saying it would help me grieve.”
“Which would piss you off,” she said.
Knox hated that Savannah had used his father’s death to her advantage to go places and do things. That he needed a break and it’d be good for him to get away.
It went from caring to greed.
“It did,” he said. “We went on one trip. Just a long weekend. It didn’t help me any, though she had a good time.”
He was too busy feeling guilty for everything he’d lost with his father and then what he’d gained by the death.
He was dealing with trying to find out how his father died and coping with it being an accident.
It wasn’t as if Savannah talked to him about things.
She didn’t get him to open up about his feelings.
