Chapter 28

• MINERVA and I did a quick inventory of the food and drink that we needed for tomorrow’s brunch — the first of two I would host this weekend. This one was going to be small, close family only, but I was more nervous about it than anything else. Mostly because Jolene was going to be there.
• Me and my husband’s mistress haven’t been in the same room in more than a year. Shannon willed her his portion of my business when he died, so we were business partners at MacFarland Brokerage, but that was in name and paperwork only. I ran the agency, and she was free to do whatever the hell she did without much interaction between the two of us. Jared was close with his little brother, but with him in Chicago, I only had to be comfortable with knowing he would visit his brother whenever he came into town. But tomorrow morning, Dylan would be in my house, eating at my table with her, and I’d be a liar if I said it didn’t fucking bother me.
• Maybe that was why my mind latched onto Tommy’s charm and boyish flirtation this afternoon. I knew that’s all it was. I would be silly to read anything more into it.