“So why was it no one would even utter your name to me while you were gone?” Luke asked Kelly as they sat together, having dinner. He surprised himself by asking her to go with him to dinner. It wasn’t a date, but he was ridiculously glad to be sitting across from her, even though it was just the local Mexican restaurant. She probably usually ate gourmet at the hippest locations in L.A., of which Luke had no idea of what those would be, but he assumed that’s what Kelly was used to. He marveled that she never shared that world. She rarely mentioned it, in fact, and never turned her nose up at the lives lived here in Seaclusion.
“I was making some changes to my profession.”
“We got over your profession last summer.”
“You did. But I changed it, and I was embarrassed for anyone to know. I w
