[Kathy]
"Does that matter to you Lexing?"
I blinked.
"Of course not."
He bit back a smile.
"Why are you even here? We didn't agree to meet up today."
He offered me his hand. "Let me take you someplace."
I stared at his outstretched hand.
"C'mon Lexing."
I sighed and placed my hand in his.
His fingers closed around mine, and he started walking, with me trailing behind him.
"Where is this 'someplace'?" I asked.
"You'll see." he said. "We're doing relationship training."
I scoffed, "You and your ridiculous phrases. I don't know how you come up with them."
We got into his truck.
He drove us to some hole-in-the-wall taco place off the main strip, the kind of spot I'd walked past a hundred times without ever going inside. Red vinyl booths, a menu taped to the wall instead of print
