"Why?" Violet asked, seemingly from nowhere.
It was Friday and Violet was in Carl's car on their way to get something to eat before catching a movie. She had blurted out the question with no preamble and Carl wondered what she was talking about.
"Why what?" he asked, his gaze flickering over to hers before going back to the road.
"Why all the women?" she asked.
Oh.
"I don't know," he said honestly. Then he grinned teasingly at her. "I suppose I was just wasting time until I found the right one."
Violet rolled her eyes and her head went back to watching the passing scenery.
"That's a crap line if I ever heard one," Violet told him."How many times have you used that one?"
"Never."
Her head snapped to his. "Bullshit."
"It's the God's honest truth," he told her. He wasn't lying. She
