That heartburn feeling filled my chestagain, and I scratched but it didn’t go away. “Max wouldn’t lie tome.”
“She broke up with you for living as a man,but nooo she’d never lie.”
“Exactly,” I said calmly even though thememory made me want to put my fist through the windshield. “Maxnever lied to me, even when the going got tough. She confrontsthings head-on. That’s my Max.”
“That’s not what I heard,” Agathamumbled.
I knew exactly what she’d said, but I playeddumb—literally—and asked, “What’d you just say?”
Agatha shrugged. “Oh nothing.”
“Don’t you oh nothing me. Tell mewhat you heard.”
With a holier-than-thou expression paintedacross her wrinkled old face, Agatha told me, “Scuttlebutt had itMaxine was going around with someone else even while you two werestill together.”
I gripped t
