Jimmy picked up the envelope.
“You didn’t open it?” His question broke the tension between me and Stone. “Don’t you want to know what’s in it?”
“It’s a check,” I whispered. “I know what’s in it. It’s his payback for everything he thinks he stole from me.” I didn’t add that there wasn’t a check large enough to cover the cost of a broken heart.
“For how much?” Jimmy asked.
“Does it matter?” I countered.
Jimmy shrugged and Stone glared at him.
“That’s it? A check?” Jimmy was holding the fat envelope and waving it in front of me. “Feels like a lot of paper for only a check.”
Stone’s glare turned deadly, but Jimmy ignored him.
“No. He said something about a decision I had to make.” I tried to bat the envelope away, but he moved it so it evaded my hand.
“You should open it, huh?” he ask
