Chapter 21: Unresolved“You sure you want to hear all this, Ash?” Pepper peered up at me. “I mean, I feel like I’m unloading a lot of baggage on you.
“And…you’re not really saying anything.” She rolled over.
“It’s okay.”
“Hmph.”
“What?”
“You’re a bad liar, Ash.”
“I’m not…Look, I knew what I was getting into. Part-time therapist was on the list.”
“Did you?”
“Yes, Pepper, I did. From the moment you walked into my store. Quit being such a martyr. We’re all f****d up in some way. We all have our problems.”
“If you only knew.”
“Yeah, but I never will, because you’ll never tell me, will you? You’ll just keep showing up every weekend, eating my food, drinking Diet Cokes that I don’t even like, but yet I still buy them. And hammering out your penance on my piano, expecting everyone to und
