But now she had a question to answer about Brian, and she had to decide how much to share. She was pretty sure that these men would be able to sniff out a lie at fifty paces: they both had a keen, sharp intelligence in their eyes, and even though Jo would bet that their book-smarts were minimal, their people- and street-smarts were off the charts.
Lying to Wolf and Kansas was a bad, bad idea. But telling them the whole truth was just as inconceivable.
So… some truth then.
“It was a bad breakup,” Jo told them as she set down her coffee cup. “It was a bad relationship, it was a bad marriage. It was – it was just bad for me. Very much so. The kind of bad that gets people hurt.”
They both tensed at her words, looked furious as they picked up on her hints. Jo twisted her hands together and
