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“Five years. Why do you need a divorce?”
“Because.”
He smiled. “Guess it’s not my business yet.”
“It’ll never be your business, Lorenzo.”
He reclined in his chair. “And why is that?”
“Because this, whatever you’re trying to make happen? It can’t go any further.”
“Further than you eating my food, or further than us being friends?”
“Are we friends? I thought you were just some strange man who keeps showing up at my place of business.”
He chuckled. “Damn, okay. I’m trying to be your friend with hopes of becoming more than a friend.”
“All because I delivered your niece?”
“No, because I’m very, very attracted to you. The fact that you worked your magic to bring little Loren into the world makes you even more appealing to me, but my physical attraction to you is overwhelming.”
“Uh…” Sure, I had lost some weight, but I was still a big girl. I guessed he liked big girls.
“Are you attracted to me, Ms. Strickland?”
“Yes, but—”
“Good.”
“Do you have a girlfriend?”
“No.”
“But I have a husband.”
“Not for much longer.”
“You don’t know that. He might contest the divorce. And even if he doesn’t, it would be wrong for me to start seeing someone while I’m still his wife.”
“Then I’ll settle for friendship…for now.”
I sighed.
“You got something against friendship? It’s a sacred institution, you know.”
“I have something against what a friendship with you might look like to the outside world.”
He gave me a quizzical look. “What do you mean?”
“You’re an attractive man, Lorenzo. If I’m seen out with you and you look at me the way you’re looking at me now, do you think anyone is going to believe we’re just friends?”
“How am I looking at you, Ms. Strickland?”
“Like you want to take me upstairs and strip me naked.”
He stared at me. “That’s not at all what I want to do.”
“Oh…” Well, now I feel stupid.
