Carol immediately broke the silence. “You don’t have to answer now. Forget what I asked if it’s too much. I know. I know, and I shouldn’t have come here like this.”
“Carol. Stop.”
He showed up at my house with swollen eyes.
He looked at me with that raw, shameful look that made my chest hurt.
I said, “It would be an honor. But first I need to talk to Paul.”
