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“I know,” she said. “I try hard to do that.”
She wanted to say she tried harder than Jeff but wouldn’t. Even if it was true, she wasn’t going to judge and especially not say it in front of her boyfriend.
She wouldn’t be that person.
Trent was rubbing his hand up and down her back. He was soothing her and she appreciated it. He did it often. He made her feel good about things in life when she often felt bad about her decisions, even if they were the right ones.
“You do it beautifully,” he said, then moved out of her arms. “Can we talk for a minute?”
“Sure,” she said. “Can I start dinner while we do?”
She’d worked until five today since she didn’t have to get Eli. Trent said he’d get out by no later than five thirty. He ran home and showered and changed and just got to her house a few minutes ago.
She waited on dinner for him to show up. It wouldn’t take long to cook as she was only going to make Spanish rice and she had a loaf of fresh bread she’d gotten on her way home.
“That’s fine,” he said. “Anything I can do to help?”
“No,” she said. “You can sit and watch me if you want.”
“I can do that, but I hate that you do most of the cooking for us. I do know how to cook even if I don’t do it often.”
“I know,” she said. “But it relaxes me.”
She got the ground beef out and dropped it in the pan, then started to dice up onions and add that quickly too.
Another pan had water in it to make the instant rice.
She didn’t know why Trent hadn’t started to talk yet and wondered if he was waiting for her to tell him.
She looked up and he said, “You know the Fierces love to set people up, right?”
“Yes,” she said. “It’s been mentioned multiple times.” She was smirking at him. “By you too since your siblings have fallen for it.”
He held her stare. “They have. Not sure fallen is the right word.”
It was the way he was looking at her. “What’s going on? Are they trying to set you up with someone? Is that what this is about? And you need to tell them no because you’re seeing me?”
He smiled. “Yes, they are trying to set me up with someone. They haven’t been bold enough to come right out with it yet. They drop more hints than snowfall in Buffalo in January. And now they’ve recruited not only my mother, which I’ve known about, but Janine.”
“Oh,” she said, seasoning the meat as she broke it up with a wooden spoon. “How do you know or feel about that?”
“I’m not supposed to know,” he said. “Which is funny because they should have realized by now I can see it coming.”
“So you’re just guessing?” she asked.
He sighed. “You haven’t figured it out yet?”
“Figured what out?” she asked.
“Roni. They visit you as much as they visit me. Carolyn and Diane. There is no reason for them to keep coming to my office. The same with Grant and Garrett. I’m in the building and working, but yet lately one or more of them is stopping in at least once a week.”
She looked up and frowned at him. “Okay,” she said.
“They do it to you too,” he said. “But I understand you work for them. Not their wives though.”
“I have noticed that Carolyn and Diane as coming in more than they did months ago.”
“More now that I’m in the building,” he said.
