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For the next hour, I tried to draw her out about her life We spoke about her fa to know you’ material Finally, I decided to prod her about Dan

“Care to talk about your husband?” I asked, wanting to get her to talk about Dan “I see you have a gold wedding band on your er Is that his?”

She held out her hand and looked at the ring “Yes I know I should take it off It’s been almost a year, but I think I’ll wait until after the year’s up”

She said nothing for a htfully “Dan and I e and he was at a party with so when he caet erous stuff with special operations forces”

“Just in case?”

She nodded, her face flushed I could tell she had a hard ti about Dan

“He loved what he did, but I felt incredibly afraid he’d die and we’d have never had a chance atin place, and he came home on leave and ere married Within three months, he was dead and I was a ” She smiled a sad smile

I reached out and took her hand “What was he like?” I asked, trying to keepabout him”

Then she toldvarious comments and uilty to be sitting there, deceiving her

How could I get out of this lie? Everything I did would end in disaster If I confessed now, she’d be hurt and angry If I did later, after we had sex, she’d be even ry

“So what about you?” she asked “Ever married?”

I sat up straighter “Nope,” I said, not wanting to get intotype, but not anymore You have your sad story? I have et divorced and how nasty it was between the married or divorced any time soon, if ever”

She frowned “What about family? Don’t you want kids?”

“My whole life is lect them and never see theure in reat but not a real substitute”

“What did your father do exactly?”