I met up with Ray later that day. He was at the bar. I had an idea. Not about me and Ray. On that, I hadn’t a clue what I was doing. No, my idea was about that connection between Lester and Chad. Or, more appropriately, Auntie and Lucy.
“Oh, this is a nice surprise,” he said when he spotted me, scotch bottle and shot glass quickly in hand.
Pang went the guilt in my heart. I’d have to make my underhandedness up to him. I thought of a whole bunch of options. All of them involved him being naked. And me being naked. And us being naked together. With me trying not to think of Jeff. Which meant that pang went the guilt in my heart, yet again.
I chugged my shot and leaned over for a kiss.
“You taste nice,” he said. The standard wink followed. “This a social call or are you here for work?”
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