Chapter 13
“So let me get this straight,” Kelly said, leaning forward and staring intently at Howie. “Last weekend, after a great date, you f****d for the first time, and then he disappears?”
Howie nodded. “I haven’t heard from him—he hasn’t answered my texts, emails, phone calls, nothing.”
Kelly leaned back, smacked a hand on the table, and said with satisfaction, “He’s married! Didn’t I tell you?”
Howie looked at Ernie, who gave him a strange look.
“I don’t understand. We were getting along just fine. Then I made a mistake. When we were at the shelter I said some dumb thing about us needing a bigger place if we ever wanted to adopt a couple of older, big dogs that have been there for a long time. That’s the only thing I can think of that’d scare him off. I was only joking.” Howie pa
