Instead of taking the elevator to my apartment floor, I chose to plod up the stairs to buy more time and delay that dreaded conversation with Luther about her ex-wife. Sometimes, I wondered why our relationship had to be this complicated. Maybe, if our past wasn’t as horrible as it was, then we’d be just like any ordinary couple. Well, my relationship with Howard was…No, I shouldn’t think about him. My sole focus should be Luther and how to make us work.
When I reached my apartment floor more quickly than I had anticipated, I opened the door and continued to trudge the hall with my gaze fixed on the cement floor.
“Faith,” a male voice I was not unfamiliar with called just a few paces in front of me.
My head quickly snapped up, and there was the man I was least expecting to see this day
