“And you told her?”
“I didn’t want to, but…”
“Ky…”
“I didn’t think she should know what her husband was like. The more I tried not to answer her question, the stronger I felt I had too. It was like I was being pushed to fully come clean.” She waited for Sean’s reaction, but nothing. “I never wanted anyone to know the things I did in that apartment with Eric, but God didn’t see it that way.”
“How’d she take it?”
“Before or after she called me a prostitute?”
“What?” He almost choked.
“She called me prostitute and said I was lying. Then she accused DeeDee of setting all this up because she doesn’t like her husband and didn’t want to share her decorator. Oh yeah, and she wants to buy the apartment.”
“What?”
“She said she wants to buy the place and offered me twenty-five percent over market value or what I paid, whichever is more.”
“Are you kidding?”
“No, and she wants it as is, furniture and all.”
He sat staring at her with his mouth open, before responding. “She’s probably going to put him out.”
“Then why…oh, so he can live with the memories.”
“Exactly. She’s going to put him out and send him to live where he spent most of his time. That’s cold blooded.” He put another forkful of pasta into his mouth and chewed. “I gotta say, if pushed, I might do something similar.”
“No, you wouldn’t.”
“Ky, you haven’t seen me angry. When people are in love, they do strange things.”
“If that’s love, I don’t know if I want any part of it.” She sipped her water.
“You’ve never been in love?” he asked.
She thought for a moment. “No. And if I had, I’d like to think I’d be in control of my emotions and behavior.”
“That’s just it. When you’re in love, you kinda do strange things.”
“Really?”
He looked at her smiling. Everything he’d just said, she was doing. She had completely changed her life, given him a key to her home, made room for him and Simon, and closed the last door to her past. “And as the relationship grows and changes, so do you.”
“Well, I hope if that happens to me, I won’t do something insane.”
He looked at her dark eyes and he was excited, because for the first time since they started getting to know each other, he sensed her naivety. She had no idea she was acting like a woman in love. “So are you going to sell it to her?”
“I was thinking and praying about it on the way home.” She noticed his smile. “What? Why are you smiling?”
“Nothing.” He kissed her. “So what did you come up with?”
“I think I’m going to do it. The apartment is just sitting there and I have no use for it.” She reached for his hand. “Baby, the smell and memories, literally made me sick.” He gently squeezed her hand. “I couldn’t wait to get out of there. You do understand why I didn’t want you to go with me?”
He brushed the side of her face. “Yes.” She turned her mouth up in a slight smile.
“Thank you.”