“What?” Richard had known there was some truth to what Claudia had said to him, but this, this was blowing his mind.
“Believe me, I tried,” Drake said. “After months of rejection, I just gave up. Why do you think I always called you the luckiest man alive? I’ve never had anyone that awesome and hot chase me. Lucky fucker.”
Richard looked over at Nathan for clarification.
When the other man was done being amused at Drake’s speech and with his pretzel, he said, “Look, I don’t necessarily agree with your decision to let him move in so quickly after running into him for the first time in two years, but it’s your life. I take it he’s off the drugs now, right?”
“Yes,” Richard replied, “he said he’s been clean for almost a year now.”
“That’s good to know, even though part of me believes once
