“What are you supposed to let me know?” I ask.

The worried look on her face slides away. “That Leah will hurt you if something happens to me.”

“Should I be scared?”

“She’s a doctor with access to lots of drugs, so probably.” She shrugs.

I smile. “You hadn’t told her about Carly?”

“No.” She picks up the diet coke she ordered when we sat down and takes a sip. “She is in Florida with her mom and dad who just moved there. Her mom is a lot on a good day, and I didn’t really want to worry her with this when I wasn’t sure my imagination wasn’t being overactive. I was going to call and tell her about things this afternoon when I had lunch, but I only had a couple minutes between clients so there wasn’t really time to explain things properly. This is the first time I really had to talk to her.”

“Have you told your dad?” I ask only because it’s obvious this is something he would want to know.

“My parents and siblings are on an Alaskan cruise right now. I sent him a text but I’m not sure when he’ll get it because service on the boat is non-existent.”

“You didn’t want to go with them?”

“I wasn’t invited.” She laughs. “I should have clarified that it’s a cruise with my parents and my married siblings and their kids. I haven’t joined that cool club yet.”

“Do you want to?” I pick up my drink.

“What? Get married and have kids?” She fiddles with her straw.

“Yeah.”

“Eventually.” She looks across the restaurant then she quickly looks down and mumbles something under her breath before grabbing her bag from the seat next to her and starts digging in it. Looking to where she had been, I notice a guy sitting at a table with a woman, and chuckle.

“Another boyfriend?”

“What?” She keeps her head down as she pretends to look in her purse.

“How long did you date him for?”

“A while.” She groans glancing up at me. “You know until you started coming around, I never ran into any of my ex-boyfriends as often as I do now. I swear you must be putting some kind of signal in the sky showing them my location.”

“He’s here with someone and not even paying attention to you.” I say then look up when a shadow falls over the table and barely keep from laughing because it’s the guy who had been sitting across the room most likely on a date.

“I thought it was you,” he says to Willow in greeting.

She kicks me under the table when I chuckle.

“Hey Abe, how have you been?”

“Good, I’ve been meaning to call you and check in, but life’s been busy.” He glances at me.

“Sorry, I’m Abe, Willow and I are old friends.”

“She has a lot of those.” I grunt when she kicks me again harder this time.

“Abe this is my—”