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"Yeah? Well he cheated on me with a woman" He pronounced the word the way some people would say "cockroach"

I pushed ner throw pillow It was a relief to think about someone else’s probleh," I said, my words muffled by cashmere and down feathers

"Why do you say that?"

"I dunno Being a gay dude in the military sounds like a whole lot of trouble, no? Why do that if you’re not sure?" I was talking out of h "Good point Twenty-four hours ago, I would have agreed with you But he said he wants kids and all that shit The picket fence The dog"

Dios "I want that stuff, too And so does Alison It’s just that she wants it with sorunt I’m pretty sure it was supposed to sound empathetic

"At least I didn’t spend two hundred bucks on dinner," I added "The night blew up about twoWith him, that counted as a reply

"Are you pissed at Devon?" I asked

"I wish I was angry," Mat admitted "I’m only depressed"

"Yeah? Well I’m both depressed and pissed" I was so tweaked by the whole thing that I’d gone and done so about it

And then the freaking condo brain But that’s what you get when you think with your pito

"I should be pissed," Mat said "Pissed would feel better than this I thought ere happy" He put his head in his hands, and for the first tiht ere happy, too," I coht about all the ti better attention

"Maybe it wasn’t meant to be" Mat chuckled darkly "Christ Listen to ot laid before I got dumped"

That wasn’t a subject I wished to talk about, so I was quiet

A knock at the door interrupted our silence

As if by soe each other’s eyes