Chapter 154

He knew what she was doing. She was trying to break the ice between them and draw him into easy conversation but he was happy to sit in silence and eat his meal. Anything of importance they had to say to each other had been said this afternoon. He had only let Heather stay because of her threat, but she wouldn’t be staying a second longer than it took to secure custody of his daughter. Until then, he would put up with her, but that didn’t mean he had to be polite or friendly. He would be civil to her, especially when Abby was around, but that’s as far as it went. She was babbling on about her cruise, not that he was listening. She laughed at her own joke and he kept his head down and kept eating, shoveling the stew into his mouth, barely tasting it. The sooner he could finish his meal, the sooner he could get away from her and back to Becky. They had unfinished business, and he had every intention of finishing it, more than once. He scraped his plate clean and drained his glass before