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She wasn’t sleeping.
And talking about whatever they wanted to talk about was safer by far than lying in bed, tossing and turning and thinking about the man asleep in Mona’s house—the man who could be in her bed if only she’d let him.
But she wouldn’t let him. Couldn’t.
But she thought about him. Couldn’t help herself.
She looked forward to their dinners every evening. Couldn’t seem to help that, either. She was eager to learn what he’d done on the house every day.
“You should come and see,” he said each evening.
But she always declined. “I’ve got too much to do,” she said. But she was curious.
So was he. While she asked about his work, every evening he asked questions about the years she’d lived there.
Which had been her bedroom? When had the swing set been set up? Whose birthday present had it been? How had they celebrated Christmas when they’d lived there?
At first Edie was reluctant to answer. For years she had bottled up the memories because it had seemed safer that way. But under Nick’s gentle questioning, she found herself talking more, remembering more—and finding joy in the flood of memories she’d kept close to her heart.
Why hadn’t she done it sooner?
Because talking about her father had always caused her mother pain. Ronan, too, shied away from discussing their father. But then Ronan shied away from talking about everything. And no one else shared those memories. No one ever asked about them. Not even Ben, she realized. He hadn’t probed, didn’t want to make her sad. And Ben had always been busy looking forward.
But Nick asked.
And Edie talked. When she protested that she was talking too much about herself, that it was his turn, he obliged with stories about his own childhood—about summers on Long Island—he and his brother Ari with their Savas cousins, especially Demetrios who was his age and George who was the same age as his brother Ari.
“We were wild and crazy kids,” he told her. “If there was trouble to get into, we found it.”
He told her stories that made her laugh and he showed her scars that made her wince. And she realized that not going to bed with Nick wasn’t stopping her falling in love a little bit more every night they shared a meal.
Each evening the dinners lasted longer, and it was harder to pull herself away and say she needed to get back to work.
But she did. She had to. It was all she could do for self-preservation.
But by Friday she knew it was a very good thing she had agreed to go out with Derek that evening.
Midafternoon, after she’d taken four high-pressure phone calls in a row and spent another hour fruitlessly trying to contact Mona about a script, she decided to take a break, go back to her apartment and figure out what she was going to wear.
“Come on,” she said, turning to look for the dog as she hung up the phone, frustrated at still not reaching Mona. “Let’s get out of here.”
And that was when she realized Roy wasn’t there.
“Roy?”
She got up from her desk and went out to the kitchen. Sometimes on hot days he would go lie on the cool tiles there. But not today.
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